question:Can you provide more information on the anti-democratic ballot access laws mentioned in the summary? How do they affect the ability of third-party candidates to run in elections in California?

question:ALL WEEK Echuca East Primary School has been encouraging students to get involved in today’s national Ride2School Day. But parent and Echuca woman Jodi Ujimoto says the uneven nature and lack of footpaths surrounding the school makes it almost impossible for students to safely take part. She said children were forced to travel through dirt in summer and mud in winter. ‘‘We want to actively promote students transiting to school, whether it’s walking, riding or scooting,’’ Mrs Ujimoto said. ‘‘One of the challenges we have in the east is the lack of footpaths leading to the school. ‘‘About half of the students live within 2km of the school and yet not all of them can safely transit to school. ‘‘We’re trying to work with the council to improve the footpaths in the east to make it easier for as many students as possible to walk, scoot or ride to school. Campaspe Shire Council’s active transport strategy aims to make it easier for people to walk and cycle. Through data collected from two drop-in sessions in August 2018 and an interactive, visual mapping tool, CrowdSpot, council gained an idea about what needs to change. In the drafting process, the strategy will highlight areas in Echuca that can be improved. ‘‘Echuca East and Jodi put up their hands to voice their concerns and now we can work together to see what council can do,’’ Cr Mackrell said. ‘‘We understand we need to make safer ways for children to walk and ride to school. ‘‘We have been looking into the east footpath connectivity but there are policies in place we have to follow. Council’s regulatory and community services general manager Paul McKenzie said he hoped the strategy would improve areas for active purposes. ‘‘Once the strategy has passed council, we can release it back into the community for their input,’’ Mr McKenzie said. ‘‘We are hoping this can happen within the next six to eight weeks. ‘‘We have funds available for the renewal of existing footpaths and we have a small amount of funds for new footpaths. These funds are allocated based on priority. Mrs Ujimoto has banded together with other parents from Echuca East to form the Active Transport Echuca East Group (ATEEG). With the support of principal Lyn Strachan, the group’s aim is to ‘‘increase the number of footpaths, bicycle lanes and safe crossings in Echuca East to help our kids safely get to school by foot, bicycle or scooter’’. ‘‘We need to be able to encourage the students to go from home to school to sporting precincts and to develop their independence,’’ Mrs Strachan said. Based on the passage above, How is the Campaspe Shire Council working to improve footpaths and Active transport in Echuca East and what is their active transport strategy?

question:Can you tell me more about the Active Transport Echuca East Group and their goals for improving footpaths and safety for children walking, riding, and scooting to school in Echuca East?

question:Generate response to the question/instruction based on a piece of given material Question/Instruction: Can you paraphrase the author's perspective on the misuse of language, and provide examples to support your explanation? Given material: Clear speaking and clear writing are foundational to clear thinking. These concepts do not imply a crude command of language or understanding, but rather a solid command of thought. Unfortunately, clarity of expression is too often confused with primitiveness, and obscurity (or even gibberish) is too often confused with sophistication (or the dreaded nuance). These confusions are especially common in liberals and so-called intellectuals. In many ways. When you next hear or read this phrase, try to imagine what the many ways might be. Invariably, "many ways" refers to just one, or maybe a few, possibilities. This idiom is not just meaningless; most of the time, it is mendacious, meant to vaguely indicate the existence of even more unspoken insights, which usually do not exist. Sort of (and its variant "kind of"). This may be the most overworked phrase among liberals and intellectuals. It is intended to indicate the speaker's unvoiced depths of intelligence and nuanced understanding (see below). This excerpt from a music review I recently read is a classic example of this tactic: "This song is a sort of metaphor for a kind of common experience of angst." Either it's a metaphor or it isn't. Either it's angst or it isn't. Everything is "a sort" of something. This affectation almost never carries meaning apart from an ego telegraphing its need to be admired. Experts say. This ubiquitous phrase attempts to impart a sense of fact-based knowledge gained from study and research. It is commonly used by pundits, newscasters, and other intellectually shiftless crowds. I can't shake the feeling that if asked to exactly explain what experts exactly said, a pundit would usually reply with a blank stare. In fact, while standing in line at a Thanksgiving buffet last week, a chatterbox behind me was decrying Republicans for being global warming deniers who aren't bright enough to heed the scientific experts. I asked him pleasantly if he could recommend any of those scientific experts for my education, and he actually did stare at me blankly. Nuanced. Nuance is the holy grail of liberals and intellectuals. It is also meaningless, except as a way to obfuscate muddled thinking and puff up an ego. The only way to understand difficult material -- pardon me, nuanced material -- is through a lucid understanding of what is unclear or complex. A beautiful example of how clear communication does not equate with a lack of polish or insight involves Richard Feynman, the greatest physicist of his time. He had a unique way of explaining complex phenomena. Shortly after the Challenger space shuttle disaster in 1986, mathematicians, engineers, researchers, and scientists of all stripes were tasked with looking into its causes. Feynman was among them. In a public demonstration, Feynman asked for a glass of ice water. He dropped a piece of rubber into the glass, took it out, and showed how at freezing temperature, the rubber lost resilience. This un-nuanced demonstration -- no equations, no jargon, no blackboard -- illuminated to the general public and the struggling experts what had gone wrong (at least with the engineering) to cause the explosion. S. Fred Singer's American Thinker articles about global warming are also excellent examples of how genuine nuance arises naturally from clearly described questions and conditions. Even in literature, nuance arises from clarity. You might think that the line "Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule" is poppycock (from Bob Dylan's song "Visions of Johanna"). But at least you know what the poppycock is. You may appreciate the nuances of Hamlet's dilemma, but to do so, you must first understand what is bothering him. Potential and potentially. These weenie words that distort and attenuate meaning have insinuated themselves into everyday speech. I first became aware of this trend years ago during an inspection tour a radioactive spill. The sludgy puddle was roped off with signs that read POTENTIAL RADIOACTIVE HAZARD. The signs exasperated my boss. "Potentially radioactive? Or potentially a hazard? It's radioactive or not, and it's a hazard or it's not. The sign should be STAY AWAY. DEADLY RADIOACTIVE HAZARD." "Potentially" and "potential" are often inserted before words (such "risk," "danger," and "side-effects") that are already, by their nature, potentials. For example, a risk is a potential for something to occur. A potential risk, strictly speaking, isn't necessarily even a risk. The same lack of forthrightness sometimes afflicts the word "allegation." I once read this gem: "The allegations in the indictment suggest that the defendant allegedly ..." First, allegations don't suggest; they charge. Second, an allegation describes a criminal act. An indictment that alleges an alleged crime is actually alleging an allegation of a crime, not a crime itself. Phony laughter. This offense does not involve words, but it is closely enough related to warrant mention. Mostly the practice of liberals, it expresses smugness. Every false tee-hee announces, "Aren't I marvelously subtle in my superior appreciation of whatever!" Hillary Clinton is a master of this technique. A giveaway of phony laughter is that what triggers it is not funny. Here's an egregious example: I recently heard the host of the National Public Radio show say the word Republican -- not as a punchline to anything, but simply in passing. No sooner had he uttered the word than a noisy, self-satisfied tittering swept through the liberal audience. The misuses of language discussed in this article are more than trivial cavils. They are tools of arrogance, self-puffery, intellectual sloth, and muddled thinking. They all mask real richness by distancing ideas from meaning. They are often meant to intimidate or hoodwink. Even though this article has been a sort of airing of pet peeves of these mot justes of lazy thinking, the author hopes that in many ways it will shed potentially nuanced light on these problems. And the next time you run into something like that last sentence, beware.