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	<title>ECarSecurity Blog &#124; Car Alarms &#124; Car Security &#124; Remote Starters &#124; Keyless Entry</title>
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		<title>Why buy a car alarm or security system?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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ECarSecurity.com (aka Car Security Professionals Inc.) has determined the most costly often vandalized possession you own is your vehicle. Millions of vehicles a day are left somewhere while you are working, vacationing, sleeping, visiting, eating etc... At no point should you leave your car unprotected without a car alarm or security system. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ECarSecurity.com (aka Car Security Professionals Inc.) has determined the most costly often vandalized possession you own is your vehicle. Millions of vehicles a day are left somewhere while you are working, vacationing, sleeping, visiting, eating etc&#8230; At no point should you leave your car unprotected without a car alarm or security system.</p>
<p>As times continue to get tougher, cars become targeted for vandalism on an hourly basis. In some areas there is no way you can leave your car parked without a car security system installed. Every car that seems easier to vandalize will always get vandalized before a security enforced vehicle. Chances are your car you will be vandalized at least twice in your lifetime. Wether its breaking the window to steal something or trying to steal the vehicle itself, do not leave your car unprotected!</p>
<p>You paid for your vehicle, yet you are leaving it somewhere unprotected, doesn&#8217;t make much sense if you think about it. Now is the time to secure your possession just like you would your house and other items you own. Your car is left the most vulnerable at the most times!</p>
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		<title>Remote Starting is useful all year round!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the cold season is over and its warming up, some people just cant stand the heat. Plenty of people chose a remote starter over the winter to warm up their cars before getting into it and not people want remote starters to cool their car before they get into it. Either way a remote starter is useful all year round!



Don't waste time in buying one of the most convenient things you can do to your car. Remember you most likely use your car everyday, a remote starter will equally so be useful everyday! And in the meantime you can have keyless entry and a full car alarm to secure your vehicle.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now that the cold season is over and its warming up, some people just cant stand the heat. Plenty of people chose a remote starter over the winter to warm up their cars before getting into it and not people want remote starters to cool their car before they get into it. Either way a remote starter is useful all year round!</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t waste time in buying one of the most convenient things you can do to your car. Remember you most likely use your car everyday, a remote starter will equally so be useful everyday! And in the meantime you can have keyless entry and a full car alarm to secure your vehicle.</p>
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		<title>Remote Starters are a big hit for the winter.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.ecarsecurity.com/Galaxy-G35rs-1-button-remote-engine-starter-p/galaxy_g35rs.htm"><img alt="" src="http://www.ecarsecurity.com/v/vspfiles/photos/Galaxy_G35rs-2.jpg" title="G35rs 1 button Remote Starter" class="alignleft" width="200" height="169" /></a>  

<a href="http://www.ecarsecurity.com/Galaxy-2100RS-p/galaxy_2100rs_remote_starter.htm"><img alt="" src="http://www.ecarsecurity.com/v/vspfiles/photos/Galaxy_2100RS_Remote_Starter-2.jpg" title="2100RS Remote Starter and Keyless Entry" class="aligncenter" width="199" height="154" /></a>  

<a href="http://www.ecarsecurity.com/Precision-2210-p/precision_2210_remote_starter.htm"><img alt="" src="http://www.ecarsecurity.com/v/vspfiles/photos/Precision_2210_Remote_Starter-2.jpg" title="Precision 2210 Remote Starter and Keyless Entry" class="alignright" width="199" height="158" /></a>

Have you ever wondered how convenient it would be to get into your warm already heated up vehicle when its freezing cold outside? Plenty of people don't wonder about this, they actually do it! ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.ecarsecurity.com/Galaxy-G35rs-1-button-remote-engine-starter-p/galaxy_g35rs.htm"><img alt="" src="http://www.ecarsecurity.com/v/vspfiles/photos/Galaxy_G35rs-2.jpg" title="G35rs 1 button Remote Starter" class="alignleft" width="200" height="169" /></a>  </p>
<p><a href="http://www.ecarsecurity.com/Galaxy-2100RS-p/galaxy_2100rs_remote_starter.htm"><img alt="" src="http://www.ecarsecurity.com/v/vspfiles/photos/Galaxy_2100RS_Remote_Starter-2.jpg" title="2100RS Remote Starter and Keyless Entry" class="aligncenter" width="199" height="154" /></a>  </p>
<p><a href="http://www.ecarsecurity.com/Precision-2210-p/precision_2210_remote_starter.htm"><img alt="" src="http://www.ecarsecurity.com/v/vspfiles/photos/Precision_2210_Remote_Starter-2.jpg" title="Precision 2210 Remote Starter and Keyless Entry" class="alignright" width="199" height="158" /></a></p>
<p>Have you ever wondered how convenient it would be to get into your warm already heated up vehicle when its freezing cold outside? Plenty of people don&#8217;t wonder about this, they actually do it! Some parts of our nation become very cold over the winter and sometimes even in the spring/fall. Often times unbearably cold enough to make us struggle to get to our car, and when we finally get into it, its even colder! Why do this when there is a simple solution out there?</p>
<p>At <a href="http://www.ecarsecurity.com">www.ECarSecurity.com</a>, we offer incredible prices on remote starters, engine starters and car alarms. You can secure your car while conveniently warming up your car from inside your house. You can even program your remote to start your car automatically for you at a certain time every morning! It does not get more convenient then that!</p>
<p>We offer various types of systems that have tons of features. You can get a basic 1 button remote start unit like the new <a href="http://www.ecarsecurity.com/Galaxy-G35rs-1-button-remote-engine-starter-p/galaxy%20g35rs.htm">G35rs unit</a> we offer. You can also get just a keyless entry with remote starter units like we have to offer on <a href="http://www.ecarsecurity.com/Remote-Start-only-keyless-entry-s/201.htm">this page</a>. What if you want the full package with a car alarm, remote starter and keyless entry, well we have that to <a href="http://www.ecarsecurity.com/Remote-Start-Alarm-with-keyless-entry-s/203.htm">here</a>. We have tons of systems ranging from $30 to $400.</p>
<p>Please check out our store <a href="http://www.ecarsecurity.com">www.ECarSecurity.com</a> and feel free to contact us for any assistance.</p>
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		<title>Internet 2009 in numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The year 2009 has shown a large increase in internet usage, this is another year added to the growing number of internet use. Everyday more people use the internet for there daily lives. It has become a very large part of everyone's lives and currently some people would say they cant live without it! Read all the stats in this article, its very interesting!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,Sans-Serif; color: #000000; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Email</strong></span><strong><br />
* 90 trillion</strong> &#8211; The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009.<br />
<strong>* 247 billion</strong> &#8211; Average number of email messages per day.<br />
<strong>* 1.4 billion</strong> &#8211; The number of email users worldwide.<br />
<strong>* 100 million</strong> &#8211; New email users since the year before.<br />
<strong>* 81%</strong> &#8211; The percentage of emails that were spam.<br />
<strong>* 92%</strong> &#8211; Peak spam levels late in the year.<br />
<strong>* 24%</strong> &#8211; Increase in spam since last year.<br />
<strong>* 200 billion</strong> &#8211; The number of spam emails per day (assuming 81% are spam).</p>
<p><strong>Websites<br />
* 234 million</strong> &#8211; The number of websites as of December 2009.<br />
<strong>* 47 million</strong> &#8211; Added websites in 2009.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,Sans-Serif; color: #000000; font-size: x-small;"> <strong>Web servers</strong></span><strong><br />
* 13.9%</strong> &#8211; The growth of Apache websites in 2009.<br />
<strong>* -22.1%</strong> &#8211; The growth of IIS websites in 2009.<br />
<strong>* 35.0%</strong> &#8211; The growth of Google GFE websites in 2009.<br />
<strong>* 384.4%</strong> &#8211; The growth of Nginx websites in 2009.<br />
<strong>* -72.4%</strong> &#8211; The growth of Lighttpd websites in 2009.</p>
<p><strong>Domain names<br />
* 81.8 million</strong> &#8211; .COM domain names at the end of 2009.<br />
<strong>* 12.3 million</strong> &#8211; .NET domain names at the end of 2009.<br />
<strong>* 7.8 million</strong> &#8211; .ORG domain names at the end of 2009.<br />
<strong>* 76.3 million</strong> &#8211; The number of country code top-level domains (e.g. .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.).<br />
<strong>* 187 million</strong> &#8211; The number of domain names across all top-level domains (October 2009).<br />
<strong>* 8%</strong> &#8211; The increase in domain names since the year before.</p>
<p><strong>Internet users<br />
* 1.73 billion</strong> &#8211; Internet users worldwide (September 2009).<br />
<strong>* 18%</strong> &#8211; Increase in Internet users since the previous year.<br />
<strong>* 738,257,230</strong> &#8211; Internet users in Asia.<br />
<strong>* 418,029,796</strong> &#8211; Internet users in Europe.<br />
<strong>* 252,908,000</strong> &#8211; Internet users in North America.<br />
<strong>* 179,031,479</strong> &#8211; Internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.<br />
<strong>* 67,371,700</strong> &#8211; Internet users in Africa.<br />
<strong>* 57,425,046</strong> &#8211; Internet users in the Middle East.<br />
<strong>* 20,970,490</strong> &#8211; Internet users in Oceania / Australia.</p>
<p><strong>Social media<br />
* 126 million</strong> &#8211; The number of blogs on the Internet (as tracked by BlogPulse).<br />
<strong>* 84%</strong> &#8211; Percent of social network sites with more women than men.<br />
<strong>* 27.3 million</strong> &#8211; Number of tweets on Twitter per day (November, 2009)<br />
<strong>* 57%</strong> &#8211; Percentage of Twitter&#8217;s user base located in the United States.<br />
<strong>* 4.25 million</strong> &#8211; People following @aplusk (Ashton Kutcher, Twitter&#8217;s most followed user).<br />
<strong>* 350 million</strong> &#8211; People on Facebook.<br />
<strong>* 50%</strong> &#8211; Percentage of Facebook users that log in every day.<br />
<strong>* 500,000</strong> &#8211; The number of active Facebook applications.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,Sans-Serif; color: #000000; font-size: x-small;"> <strong>Images</strong></span><strong><br />
* 4 billion</strong> &#8211; Photos hosted by Flickr (October 2009).<br />
<strong>* 2.5 billion</strong> &#8211; Photos uploaded each month to Facebook.<br />
<strong>* 30 billion</strong> &#8211; At the current rate, the number of photos uploaded to Facebook per year.</p>
<p><strong>Videos<br />
* 1 billion</strong> &#8211; The total number of videos YouTube serves in one day.<br />
<strong>* 12.2 billion</strong> &#8211; Videos viewed per month on YouTube in the US (November 2009).<br />
<strong>* 924 million</strong> &#8211; Videos viewed per month on Hulu in the US (November 2009).<br />
<strong>* 182</strong> &#8211; The number of online videos the average Internet user watches in a month (USA).<br />
<strong>* 82%</strong> &#8211; Percentage of Internet users that view videos online (USA).<br />
<strong>* 39.4%</strong> &#8211; YouTube online video market share (USA).<br />
<strong>* 81.9%</strong> &#8211; Percentage of embedded videos on blogs that are YouTube videos.</p>
<p><strong>Web browsers<br />
* 62.7%</strong> &#8211; Internet Explorer<br />
<strong>* 24.6%</strong> &#8211; Firefox<br />
<strong>* 4.6%</strong> &#8211; Chrome<br />
<strong>* 4.5%</strong> &#8211; Safari<br />
<strong>* 2.4%</strong> &#8211; Opera<br />
<strong>* 1.2%</strong> &#8211; Other</p>
<p><strong>Malicious software<br />
* 148,000</strong> &#8211; New zombie computers created per day (used in botnets for sending spam, etc.)<br />
<strong>* 2.6 million</strong> &#8211; Amount of malicious code threats at the start of 2009 (viruses, trojans, etc.)<br />
<strong>* 921,143</strong> &#8211; The number of new malicious code signatures added by Symantec in Q4 2009.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Verdana,Sans-Serif; color: #000000; font-size: x-small;"><em><strong><br />
About the Author:</strong> Website and web server stats from <a title="This external link will open in a new window" href="http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/12/24/december_2009_web_server_survey.html" target="_blank">Netcraft</a>. Domain name stats from <a title="This external link will open in a new window" href="http://www.verisign.com/domain-name-services/domain-information-center/industry-brief/index.html" target="_blank">Verisign</a> and <a title="This external link will open in a new window" href="http://webhosting.info/" target="_blank">Webhosting.info</a>. Internet user stats from <a title="This external link will open in a new window" href="http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm" target="_blank">Internet World Stats</a>. Web browser stats from <a title="This external link will open in a new window" href="http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0&amp;qpmr=15&amp;qpdt=1&amp;qpct=3&amp;qptimeframe=M&amp;qpsp=131&amp;qpnp=1" target="_blank">Net Applications</a>. Email stats from <a title="This external link will open in a new window" href="http://www.radicati.com/?p=3237" target="_blank">Radicati Group</a>. Spam stats from <a title="This external link will open in a new window" href="http://www.mcafee.com/us/local_content/reports/7315rpt_threat_1009.pdf" target="_blank">McAfee</a>. Malware stats from <a title="This external link will open in a new window" href="http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/enterprise/other_res%0D%0A%20ources/b-symc_intelligence_quarterly_oct-dec_2009_20949850.en-us.pdf" target="_blank">Symantec</a> (<a title="This external link will open in a new window" href="http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/enterprise/white_papers/b-whitepaper_internet_security_threat_report_xiv_04-2009.en-us.pdf" target="_blank">and here</a>) and <a title="This external link will open in a new window" href="http://www.mcafee.com/us/local_content/reports/7315rpt_threat_1009.pdf" target="_blank">McAfee</a>. Online video stats from <a title="This external link will open in a new window" href="http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/1/November_Sees_Number_of_U.S._Videos_Viewed_Online_Surpass_30_Billion_for_First_Time_on_Record" target="_blank">Comscore</a>, <a title="This external link will open in a new window" href="http://www.sysomos.com/reports/video/" target="_blank">Sysomos</a> and <a title="This external link will open in a new window" href="http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2009/10/y000000000utube.html" target="_blank">YouTube</a>. Photo stats from <a title="This external link will open in a new window" href="http://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/10/12/4000000000/" target="_blank">Flickr</a> and <a title="This external link will open in a new window" href="http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics" target="_blank">Facebook</a>. Social media stats from <a title="This external link will open in a new window" href="http://www.blogpulse.com/" target="_blank">BlogPulse</a>, Pingdom (<a title="This external link will open in a new window" href="http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/11/13/in-depth-stud%0D%0A%20y-of-twitter-how-much-we-tweet-and-when/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a title="This external link will open in a new window" href="http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/11/27/study-males-vs-females-in-social-networks" target="_blank">here</a>), <a title="This external link will open in a new window" href="http://twittercounter.com/pages/100" target="_blank">Twittercounter</a>, <a title="This external link will open in a new window" href="http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a title="This external link will open in a new window" href="http://gigaom.com/2009/11/10/twitter-valuation/" target="_blank">GigaOm</a>.</em></span></p>
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		<title>Search engine use explodes in December 2009!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Computerworld &#8211; People were doing a whole lot more online searching last month, and they were still largely using the Google engine to do it. &#8220;A comScore, Inc. study released late last week showed that 46% more online searches were made worldwide last month than in December, 2008. In all, the Web tracking firm said, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #ff0000;">Computerworld</span> &#8211;    	People were doing a whole lot more <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/346063/_War_of_Innovation_Will_Change_Face_of_Search">online searching</a> last month, and they were still largely using the Google engine to do it.</p>
<p>&#8220;A comScore, Inc. study released late last week showed that 46% more online searches were made worldwide last month than in December, 2008. In all, the Web tracking firm said, people 15 and older conducted 131 billion searches just in December, or an average of 4 billion searches a day, 175 million per hour, and 29 million per minute.</p>
<p>&#8220;The global search market continues to grow at an extraordinary rate, with both highly developed and emerging markets contributing to the strong growth worldwide,&#8221; said Jack Flanagan, comScore executive vice president, in a statement. &#8220;Search is clearly becoming a more ubiquitous behavior among Internet users that drives navigation not only directly from search engines but also within sites and across networks.&#8221;</p>
<p>ComScore also noted that the online users in the United States conduct more searches than people anywhere else in the world. Americans accounted for 22.7 billion searches, or approximately 17% of all worldwide searches, last month.</p>
<p>&#8220;Forty-six percent year-to-year growth in search is certainly a big number, but not a shockingly big number,&#8221; said Dan Olds, an analyst with Gabriel Consulting Group. &#8220;We know that search is the most heavily used Web mechanism and, with people conducting more and more of their personal business on the Web, it&#8217;s natural that Web search is growing at a high rate. Factor in the search growth in countries where consumers are just now getting wide access to both computing and broadband, and it&#8217;s easier to see how search grew at a nearly 50% clip from 2008 to 2009.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9143758/Google_named_Word_of_the_Decade">Search giant Google</a> lived up to its reputation in 2009, accounting for 66.8%, or 87.8 billion, of all searches last month, according to comScore. Of the 131 billion searches conducted last month, 87.8 billion of them were done on Google&#8217;s site. The Web tracker also noted that Google sites achieved a 58% increase in search query volume over the past year.&#8221;</p>
<p><span style="color: #000080;"><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9148498/Search_engine_use_explodes_in_December" target="_blank">Read more at Computerworld.</a></span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Released by the Insurance Information Institute. In 2008 the value of stolen motor vehicles was $6.4 billion. The dollar size of claims has been going up, reflecting the higher value of new cars on the road, the value of the cars that are targets for theft or are damaged and the cost of vehicle bodywork. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Released by the Insurance Information Institute.</p>
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<li>In 2008 the value of stolen motor vehicles was $6.4 billion.</li>
<li>The dollar size of claims has been going up, reflecting the higher value of new cars on the road, the value of the cars that are targets for theft or are damaged and the cost of vehicle bodywork.</li>
<li>Nationally, more than 75,000 airbags are stolen every year.</li>
<li><strong>Thefts By City:</strong> According to an NICB study released in April 2009, the Modesto, California, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) had the highest rate per capita for vehicle thefts in the nation in 2008. Six of the top 10 U.S. MSAs for vehicle theft in 2008 were in California.</li>
<li><strong>Component Theft:</strong> More than 75,000 air bags are stolen every year, according to estimates by the Insurance Information Institute. NICB says that air bag theft costs insurers and vehicle owners more than $50 million a year. New air bags cost about $1,000 from a car dealer; on the black market the cost is between $50 and $200. To thwart thieves, steering wheel covers used with a steel bar steering wheel lock are available. New York combats air bag theft by requiring accident reports to note air bag deployment, and specifies procedures for auto repair shops to follow when replacing stolen or deployed air bags. Xenon headlights and global positioning systems (GPS) are also popular with thieves. By mid-2008, insurers and the NICB had observed a growing nationwide trend in the theft of catalytic converters. These components contain small amounts of platinum and palladium, precious metals whose value has risen with the use of catalytic converters and the growth in popularity of platinum jewelery.</li>
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<th></th>
<th colspan="2">Highest motor vehicle thefts</th>
<th></th>
<th colspan="2">Lowest motor vehicle thefts</th>
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<tr>
<th>Rank</th>
<th align="left">State</th>
<th align="left">Vehicles stolen</th>
<th align="left"> Rank</th>
<th align="left">State</th>
<th align="left">Vehicles stolen</th>
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<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">1</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">California</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-size: x-small;">192,527</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 1</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Vermont</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-size: x-small;">585</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">2</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Texas</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-size: x-small;">85,350</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 2</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Wyoming</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-size: x-small;">713</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">3</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Florida</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-size: x-small;">63,509</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 3</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">South Dakota</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-size: x-small;">800</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">4</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Georgia</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-size: x-small;">39,628</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 4</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Maine</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1,176</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">5</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Arizona</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-size: x-small;">37,218</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 5</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">New Hampshire</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1,387</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">6</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Michigan</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-size: x-small;">36,241</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 6</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Montana</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1,573</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">7</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Illinois</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-size: x-small;">32,572</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 7</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Alaska</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1,638</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">8</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ohio</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-size: x-small;">28,532</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 8</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Idaho</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1,668</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">9</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Washington</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-size: x-small;">28,331</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 9</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Delaware</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2,541</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">10</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">North Carolina</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-size: x-small;">26,743</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 10</span></td>
<td><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rhode Island</span></td>
<td align="right"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3,200</span></td>
</tr>
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