 are a fan of ridiculous storytelling and quick fire gags, this new series by Hywel Evans and Russell Gomer is for you. It’s one of those comedy podcasts where the story doesn’t really matter, it’s the jokes that (constantly) happen along the way.
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It has also been a big week in radio, with the launch of Times Radio.
The radio station from The Times and The Sunday Times features John Pienaar, Matt Chorley, Mariella Frostrup, Calum Macdonald, Aasmah Mir, Stig Abell, Luke Jones and others as presenters.
It’s also intriguing as existing Times podcasts, such as Stories from Our Times, will also have a radio airing in addition to being available on demand. It’s an interesting method of podcast distribution, and how integral audio is now seen to be integral in selling printed journalism. For a smart take on the launch, read this post by Matt Deegan.
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Q: Cannot read property 'include' of undefined - Express Routing I'm trying to do some basic routing depending on what is ticked/checked on the first (parent) page. So if the first page had 3 options and the user selects 2 of them then I'd expect the user to see the two (child) pages selected but not the third (as it was not selected).
My approach was on the first (parent) page to do the following:
router.post('/first-page/', function (req, res, next) {
  var errors = []
  var myCheckboxes = req.body.checkboxes
  if (myCheckboxes === 'undefined') {
   //error validation
  } if (myCheckboxes.includes('first')) {
    res.redirect('first-option-page')
    return
  } if (myCheckboxes.includes('second')) {
    res.redirect('second-option-page')
    return
  } if (myCheckboxes.includes('third')) {
    res.redirect('third-option-page')
    return
  } else {
    res.redirect('move-on')
    return
  }
}) 

Then for the other pages what I was doing is used the req.session.data['checkboxes'] and run through the loop again to see if the second and/or the third option page is selected and if they are then show those pages until eventually it is has gone through it all.
The problem I got is that it is then throwing the error "Cannot read property 'include' of undefined" for the child pages.
router.post('/first-option-page/', function (req, res, next) {
  var errors = []
  var myCheckboxes = req.session.checkboxes
  if (myCheckboxes.includes('second')) {
    res.redirect('second-option-page')
    return
  } if (myCheckboxes.includes('third')) {
    res.redirect('third-option-page')
    return
  } else {
    res.redirect('move-on')
    return
  }
}) 

Is there a slicker way to run through the pages or what can I do to solve the error please?

A: Found my problem, I wrote the req.session.checkboxes incorrectly it should have been req.session.data['checkboxes']
It is that time a year again – final exams, Christmas music and the annual American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. All this does make the end of the year always seem like a whirling storm of activity, but it definitely can be fun if you don’t try to see and do everything.
V14A-01 (Talk) 4:00: Crustal overprinting on mantle-derived U-series disequilibria in arc magmas: A warning signal from Volcan Llaima, Chile by O. Reubi and others.
V41B-2272 (poster) Morning: Contrasting protracted and punctuated zircon growth in two syn-erupted rhyolite magmas from Tarawera volcano: Insights to heterogeneity of crystal mush by S. Storm and others.
As for me, I’ll be giving a talk on the role that citizens might play in the future of volcano monitoring called “Using the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption as a model of citizen involvement in scientific research” during a session on Monday afternoon – ED14A-07 at 5:30 in Moscone South 102. I’ll also be on the panel for a Workshop called “Science Blogging” on Thursday from 2-4 in Moscone West 3000 – which will be webcast live (check out the main AGU 2010 website for the webcasts).
If you happen to be attending the meeting and see me, come on over and say “Hi!” or you can live vicariously through the updates I’ll be posting … and if anything big happens outside the convention center in the world of volcanoes, look for it here as well!
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What are you supposed to be thinking about? What are you supposed to be doing? Selin’s preoccupation with sweeping, unanswerable conundrums sometimes threatens to paralyze her. But the words pleasant and useful suggest a possible way forward: They invoke the Roman poet Horace’s two-pronged injunction for art—that it be both dulce et utile. Selin’s worldly new friend Svetlana observes that she “lives by aesthetic principles.” Her consciousness is steeped in erudition and poetry, her quirky opinions molded by authorities as diverse as Epictetus, Dostoevsky, and Dr. Seuss. (Visiting Hungary, the protagonist reflects, felt “increasingly like reading War and Peace,” with outré characters popping up “every five minutes.”) Yet books also let Selin down. Their shapeliness and logic defies the messy randomness of her experience. They renege on their promises. When one of her professors assigns the French novel Against Nature, Selin hopes the story will shed light on “someone who viewed things the way I did—someone trying to live a life unmarred by laziness, cowardice, and conformity.” But “I was wrong,” she discovers. “It was more a book about interior decoration