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).
This is because the viola is only a little larger than a violin, and like the violin, the viola is held on the player's left shoulder. It is also because the sound of the viola is only five notes lower than the sound of the violin. The biggest difference between the viola and the violin is the different sound. The viola's lowest string is the C string and its highest string is the A string. So, to see whether a violin-like instrument is a violin or viola, one will need to pluck the thinnest string. The violin's lowest string is the G string and its highest string is the E string.