Foundation

Foundation may refer to:

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Literature

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Foundation (framework)

Foundation is a responsive front-end framework. Foundation provides a responsive grid and HTML and CSS UI components, templates, and code snippets, including typography, forms, buttons, navigation and other interface components, as well as optional JavaScript extensions. Foundation is maintained by ZURB and is an open source project.

Origin

Foundation emerged as a ZURB project to develop front-end code faster and better. In October 2011, ZURB released Foundation 2.0 as open-source under the MIT License. In June 2012 ZURB released a major update, Foundation 3.0. In February 2013 ZURB released another major update, Foundation 4.0. In November 2013 ZURB released another major update, Foundation 5.0. The team is working on the next version of Foundation for Sites which should be released in Spring 2015.

Foundation for Email was released in September 2013

Foundation for Apps was released in December 2014

Features

Foundation was designed for and tested on numerous browsers and devices. It is a mobile first responsive framework built with Sass/SCSS giving designers best practices for rapid development. The framework includes most common patterns needed to rapidly prototype a responsive site. Through the use of Sass mixins, Foundation components are easily styled and simple to extend.

Foundation (Lackey novel)

Foundation is a Fantasy novel written in 2008 by Mercedes Lackey. It is the first book in The Collegium Chronicles (followed by Intrigues (2010), Changes (2011), Redoubt (2013), and "Bastion" (2014) It is a depiction of the early history of Valdemar its timeline is between The Last Herald Mage and Brightly Burning. The book details a change in the training of Heralds from essentially an apprenticeship such as experienced by Tylendel and Vanyel, to a school based system such as the one in Arrows of The Queen and Brightly Burning. Not all Heralds are in favor of this mainly citing lack of supervision as an objection.

Plot summary

The novel tells the story of Mags, an enslaved child working alongside other enslaved orphans in the bowels of a gemstone mine. The mine owner, Cole Peters, treats the children with casual brutality, an Mags, orphaned in his early childhood, has known no other life all the way up until the mysterious white horse stampedes into his life. This of course, is Dallen, his Companion, who assists Mags by bringing in another Herald to free him and the children. Their freedom comes on the heels of the arrest of Cole Peters, and Mags is flung into the fray of Haven as a Heraldic Trainee, with no notion of life outside of abject slavery. This, of course, left its scars, and Mags has both no idea of how to function in "normal" society, and no notion of why he so often winds up on the wrong end of trouble. His heavy accent and "stupidity" about such normal things leads to the King's Own taking him under his wing as a spy protégé, however, Mags lives in perpetual fear of the bad old days. This fear isn't unjustified, for it seems all of the Heralds are experiencing their own tumultuous changes, as they slowly abandon the old system of apprenticeships which Vanyel learned in, for one of a collegiate style such as what Herald Talia and Herald Elspeth experienced in the time of Arrows of the Queen.

Breakage

Breakage is a term used in telecommunications and accounting to indicate any type of service which is unused by the customer. A good example would be gift cards or calling cards that have been sold but never redeemed. Revenue from breakage is almost entirely profitable, since companies need not provide any goods or services for unredeemed gift cards. It should not be confused with Shrinkage (accounting) (items which are not used by the customer because they disappeared from inventory).

In 2006, a blog called "The Stalwart" criticized Best Buy for using estimated breakage to improve their revenue numbers.

In telecommunications

In Telecommunications, breakage can occur in several ways. The key elements in maximizing revenue vs. service via breakage are:

Breakage (Breaking Bad)

"Breakage" is the fifth episode of the second season of the American television drama series Breaking Bad, and the twelfth overall episode of the series. It was written by Moira Walley-Beckett and directed by Johan Renck. This episode marks the introduction of Jane Margolis.

Plot summary

Two Mexican immigrants cross the Rio Grande. One of them finds something in the water: the glass cube holding Tuco's grill that belongs to Hank.

Walt finishes his first round of chemotherapy, and is told he will learn how he has reacted to treatment in two months' time, around when his baby is due. However, Walt is beginning to feel overwhelmed by the growing medical bills, and the money he made from Tuco is running out. While he is vomiting into the toilet, he finds something clogging it - the packet of cigarettes Skyler was smoking. Jesse returns to Clovis to make good on his word: he pays for the towing and repair of his RV. He also works out a deal to store his RV in Clovis' lot, and buys a used car from him. Next, he goes to rent an apartment from Jane Margolis (Krysten Ritter), who manages the property and lives next door. Although he likes the space, he has no credit history and can only pay in cash. She initially refuses to rent to him, but eventually agrees after raising the price for cash only.