WWF also produced a scorecard earlier this week on the federal and state governments' performance in protecting the reef and – not surprisingly – awarded a big fat fail.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 5.55am BSThe:55 The Guardian's Ewen MacAskill is in Danville, watching at the venue, and sends this scorecard: Joe Biden is putting in the performance that Barack Obama should have in Denver last week.
There was a 16, three batsmen got 18 and Buttler top-scored with 22, but the scorecard is an exemplar of insufficiency.
Nowhere have the stark divides between classes that underpinned political resentment, and which fueled not only revolution but religious extremism and violence, been addressed meaningfully.The scorecard for democratic transition or even administrative reform is not much better.
Fulfilling them, even if it means trampling laws to do so, can mean career advancement and financial bonuses.Mayling Birney at the London School of Economics says the system assigns the cold logic of a scorecard to behaviour often dismissed as the excesses of little dictators far from Beijing.
Most of their citizens are comfortably off and have yet to voice dissent on any scale, but unease stirs below the tranquil surface.In short, the scorecard for the Arab spring so far looks overwhelmingly negative.
What you cannot have, it seems, is both.Each spring, the Centre for European Reform in London publishes a "scorecard" assessing what EU countries have done to implement the Lisbon agenda of reforms everything from innovation to liberalising services to labour-market flexibility.
People-related items account for one-third of the scorecard used to evaluate partners at PwC. KPMG's British firm has introduced time codes so that employees can account for how long they spend dealing with staff matters.
According to the Ibrahim index, governance deteriorated in just under a quarter of the region's countries.The index will be updated yearly, providing a scorecard of national progress assessed against objective criteria, and a framework for African civil society to engage its leaders in a debate about how we are governed.
Starting out by waving a large scorecard-figure zero ("how many weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq") and a graph with a tiny yellow bar (for "the truth") and a large blue bar ("what you say"), the Californian senator graduated to pouring vinegar ("your lies") and baking soda ("our current situation in Iraq") into a plaster-of-paris volcano ("the rising tension in the Middle East").
The city is also home to the Smart Cities research centre housed at Imperial College, which leverages transport, government, business, academic and consumer data in the hope of making the city more efficient and innovative In the United States, Boston ranked first out of 34 of the most populated US cities in the City Energy Efficiency Scorecard.
