By May, insurance companies must file next year's rates with California's state-run exchange so negotiations can begin. The LA Times has a piece today about the next battleground for Obamacare: rate increases for 2015.
The following online violin tuner will enable you to hear 4 open strings of the violin: G (lowest sounding and thickest string), D, A and E (highest sounding and thinnest string).
Steel E strings for the violin became popular, primarily because gut E strings broke so quickly. About 20 years ago, strings with nylon cores were introduced. They share many of the tonal qualities of gut strings but are much more stable in pitch as compared to gut strings, which need constant tuning.