Matt Roberts

This book introduces computable contracts, also referred to as smart legal contracts. It emphasizes the integration of legal text with machine-readable data and executable logic as a solution to inefficiencies in contract management. It also explores the application of large language models (LLMs) and natural language processing (NLP) for computable contracts. A new maturity model gives a roadmap that emphasizes progressive stages of technological integration and sophistication, providing a structured approach for organizations to adopt and evolve their contract management systems. The book is presented by Accord Project, a non-profit initiative developing an ecosystem and open-source tools for computable contracts. The community includes participants from law firms, technology companies, universities, government, and private individuals. Foreword by Dr. Megan Ma, Assistant Director at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics (CodeX).

Over the past two years, the Primary Education Voices podcast has welcomed dozens of inspirational educators with a variety of roles across primary education to share what they are passionate about. This book gives some of these educators the chance to discuss their ideas, research and reflections in a more in-depth manner to help the reader reflect more deeply about their own practice. This publication is a collation of writing of incredible philosophies, resources and ideas from primary practitioners, for primary practitioners. Engaging chapters cover a wide range of topics for the contributors of this book to share: from developing the right ethos and culture in your school or classroom, to considering how to make your curriculum more rich and inclusive, to considering how to look after your own well-being and vitality in the role of a primary educator. Within each chapter, you will hear from a number of contributors and be given the space to reflect on what they have shared, along with some thought-provoking questions to prompt you on how to adapt and refine your practice. These ideas and insights will be essential to all who work within the primary sector including trainees, early career teachers and middle and senior leaders, as well as all those who support and consult with these individuals who seek to change and improve their practice.

Over the past two years, the Primary Education Voices podcast has welcomed dozens of inspirational educators with a variety of roles across primary education to share what they are passionate about. This book gives some of these educators the chance to discuss their ideas, research and reflections in a more in-depth manner to help the reader reflect more deeply about their own practice. This publication is a collation of writing of incredible philosophies, resources and ideas from primary practitioners, for primary practitioners. Engaging chapters cover a wide range of topics for the contributors of this book to share: from developing the right ethos and culture in your school or classroom, to considering how to make your curriculum more rich and inclusive, to considering how to look after your own well-being and vitality in the role of a primary educator. Within each chapter, you will hear from a number of contributors and be given the space to reflect on what they have shared, along with some thought-provoking questions to prompt you on how to adapt and refine your practice. These ideas and insights will be essential to all who work within the primary sector including trainees, early career teachers and middle and senior leaders, as well as all those who support and consult with these individuals who seek to change and improve their practice.

Successfully execute a strategic roadmap of digital transformation and modernize your enterprise with a proven API-led agile implementation approach by unlocking the full range of features in IBM API Connect Version 10Key FeaturesExplore techniques to design and deliver valuable customer-centric APIs using API ConnectManage your APIs with improved security and optimal performance across many channelsUncover hidden capabilities that help improve business agility and management within your API ecosystemBook DescriptionIBM API Connect enables organizations to drive digital innovation using its scalable and robust API management capabilities across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. With API Connect's security, flexibility, and high performance, you'll be able to meet the needs of your enterprise and clients by extending your API footprint. This book provides a complete roadmap to create, manage, govern, and publish your APIs. You'll start by learning about API Connect components, such as API managers, developer portals, gateways, and analytics subsystems, as well as the management capabilities provided by CLI commands. You'll then develop APIs using OpenAPI and discover how you can enhance them with logic policies. The book shows you how to modernize SOAP and FHIR REST services as secure APIs with authentication, OAuth2/OpenID, and JWT, and demonstrates how API Connect provides safeguards for GraphQL APIs as well as published APIs that are easy to discover and well documented. As you advance, the book guides you in generating unit tests that supplement DevOps pipelines using Git and Jenkins for improved agility, and concludes with best practices for implementing API governance and customizing API Connect components. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to transform your business by speeding up the time-to-market of your products and increase the ROI for your enterprise. What you will learnUse API Connect to create, manage, and publish customer-centric, API-led solutionsRun CLI commands to manage API configuration and deploymentsCreate REST, SOAP, and GraphQL APIs securely using OpenAPISupport OAuth and JWT security methods using policiesCreate custom policies to supplement securityApply built-in policies to transform payloadsUse CLIs and unit testing hooks within DevOps pipelinesFind out how to customize Analytics dashboards and Portal User InterfaceWho this book is forThis book is for developers and architects who want to achieve digital transformation using IBM API Connect and successfully execute the strategic roadmap of enterprise modernization while effectively managing their API ecosystem. A solid understanding of what RESTful services and APIs can do and where to implement API security is necessary to get started. Experience in application development and basic knowledge of microservices, container orchestration, and cloud environments will help you to get the most out of this book.

Nearly everyone has someone in their circle of acquaintances who struggles—an out-of-control friend or relative whose habits or relationships are in chaos. Is there any hope, or is he or she doomed to self-destruction? Pastors Rob Cowles and Matt Roberts say God is equal to the challenge! New beginnings are possible, no matter how broken, devastated, or crazy someone’s life may be. Yet today’s churches don’t do messy very well. The Genesis Project is a network of believers whose goal is to plant churches in dark places, targeting people who don’t normally “do” church. Reaching drug addicts, convicts, strippers, and gang members, they’ve seen God do some amazing things with seemingly hopeless lives. The God of New Beginnings tells these dramatic stories, offering practical wisdom for breaking through the darkness in a person’s life: Pursuing real relationships Opening up true stories Pulling together safe communities Getting honest about sin Extending God’s forgiveness and freedom Helping people reset their lives and habits Coping with ongoing complications Not giving up when setbacks occur Freely sharing the victories Keeping the faith life simple Love never fails. And when we incorporate God’s love into our lives and relationships, redemption is possible.

Responsible for creating some of the most famous physiques in fashion, music, politics and industry including Tom Ford, Naomi Campbell, Michael McIntyre, James Corden, Amanda Holden, Trudi Styler and Mel C, personal trainer Matt Roberts has worked with celebrities who have requested, demanded and wished for every conceivable goal. In this exciting new book, Matt encourages you to think like a celebrity, presenting two of his highly acclaimed fitness and diet programmes for following at home and in your gym. The first, a 12-week plan, allows time to radically change your body in all ways - sculpting your shape, stripping fat and increasing fitness levels dramatically. It will leave you thinner, stronger, fitter and more energised. And once you have burnt the fat away, it will stay away. The second, a 2-week 'blitz' programme, is something that Matt uses with clients when they are in the final two weeks of training before their big moment. It is intensive, it is strict, and it will make you push yourself to a whole new level, but it will give you the opportunity to rid yourself of as much fat and fluid as possible in a very short time frame, and you will lose inches far more quickly than you thought you could. This programme is unapologetically challenging, but it does produce great results, quickly! While Matt knows that being ready for a 'red carpet' moment heightens the level of attention on a scale unlike almost anything else, he also understand that you can produce something similar yourself at any time, by setting clear goals, having a target, setting a timeline and also understanding the upsides and downsides of achieving or failing to reach your desired goal. So whether you are preparing for a special occasion such as a wedding day or simply aiming to get yourself into shape for the beach in summer, Matt provides the structure, the programme, the expertise and the guidance to help you to reach your intended goal, fulfil your potential and demonstrate that no obstacle is too big and no challenge insurmountable.