“The Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) scheme allows owners to use their cultural and historical artefacts to pay inheritance tax. It was augmented last year by the Cultural Gifts Scheme, which allows people to give gifts to the nation for a reduction in income tax.”
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Steven Hawking Warns About Artificial Intelligence
He told the BBC:”The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.”
New York, Berlin Philharmonics To Take Extended Residencies In Michigan
“The partnership begins next fall [in Ann Arbor] with three concerts [by the New York Philharmonic] Oct. 9-11, 2015 in Hill Auditorium, including two led by music director Alan Gilbert. The Philharmonic will return in the 2017-18 and 2019-20 seasons. The Berlin Philharmonic and another orchestra to be named later will appear in the alternating seasons.”
After Ten Years Off Due To Injury, A Great 20th-Century Violinist Is Back
“As a violinist who helped define the classical music scene through the 1970s and 1980s and became a role model for subsequent generations of players – not least, female Asian ones – [Kyung Wha] Chung could fairly be described as legendary. And she is certainly returning, concluding an extended “disappearance.