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Sent from The dark side of the moon > On 6 Apr 2018, at 19:02, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > I am posting the following article because it references an iOS app. > > Mark > > A review of Aira. What it is, how it works, and the ways it has changed my > life > by Jonathan Mosen, Posted on 03/04/2018 > > Introduction > Recently, I was pleased to attend the CSUN assistive technology conference. > I've had the privilege of going to 10 of these before, but it has been a few > years since I was there last. > When you're involved with an industry, you tend to watch developments so > closely that changes usually seem incremental. But occasionally, something > new comes along that is so game changing, it stops you in your tracks. For > me, San Diego-based Aira is one such technology. I am late to this party. > Aira has been rolling out for some time in the United States. And indeed, we > covered Aira in an edition of The Blind Side Podcast last year. But since > mentioning my Aira experience to people via outlet such as my Internet radio > show, The Mosen Explosion, I've learned that not everyone yet fully > understands what the service is or how it works. For those not familiar with > Aira, or who would like to read someone else's impressions of it, read on. > What is Aira > According to the company's website, > Aira is today's fastest growing assistive community. One tap of a button > instantly connects you with a sighted professional agent who delivers visual > assistance anytime and anywhere. > Here's what that means in practice. At present, Aira is a smart phone app, > available for iOS and Android. Since Aira is a service for blind people, > it's no surprise that the app is exemplary in terms of its accessibility. > And in iOS, it even sports Siri integration. > Using the app, you can connect via video, much like a FaceTime call, with > agents who can provide you with visual information. Audio quality is > excellent, far clearer than a standard cell phone connection. Essentially, > an Aira agent can tell you anything at all that a pair of functioning eyes > can see, plus perform a range of tasks pertaining to that information. > You can acquire the visual information using your smart phone's camera, or, > when you become a subscriber to the Aira service (Aira calls its customers > "explorers") you receive a pair of smart glasses. These are included as part > of your subscription, so there's no hardware cost upfront. > The service is available officially in the United States at present, where > Aira has an arrangement with AT&T. Aira explorers receive an AT&T MiFi > device, allowing them to use the service on the go without the data consumed > by the video connection eating up a customer's own cellular plan. If you > have a cellular plan equipped with the personal hotspot feature, you are > free to pair your Aira glasses with your phone using that method. For those > with large data plans, this may be attractive because there is one less > device to keep track of, carry, and charge. The downside, other than the > data consumption, is that a video connection to Aira for a long time may > cause significant battery drain on your smart phone. > When you're at home, work, or anywhere that Wi-Fi is available that doesn't > require web-based authentication, you can pair your Aira glasses to that > network. As far as I have been able to ascertain, 5 GHZ Wi-Fi isn't > supported at present. > Because of the need for high quality video, the glasses pair via Wi-Fi, and > not Bluetooth. The glasses are associated with your Aira account. This is > useful if, like in Bonnie's and my house, you're sharing your minutes as a > couple. More on that later. > The upshot of all of this is that for 18 hours of every day, professional, > well-trained sighted assistance is just a few taps or a Siri command away. > Describing it like this makes it sound kind of cool. But I want to explain > the impact that Aira has had on our lives in the brief time we have had it, > to illustrate that, at least for some of us, this technology is more than > just pretty cool, it's life-changing. > My first Aira experience > If you've been reading this blog or listening to The Blind Side Podcast over > the years, you will know that in recent times I have come out as having a > hearing impairment. I love going to these big conferences because I get to > catch up with old friends and make new ones, as well as see the latest and > greatest technology. I hate going to these big conferences because often, I > find myself in difficult audio environments. It can be very noisy. Hotel > lobbies and restaurants are often exceedingly crowded, with high ceilings > causing noise to bounce everywhere. The environment is difficult and tiring, > but I keep going and doing the best I can, because the alternative is to sit > at home and rust away, and I'm certainly not going to do that. > One smart thing that Aira has done is to start rolling out a concept called > "site access". With appropriate sponsorship, or perhaps at times where there > will be many potential customers in one place, Aira can enable free access > to a location or even the entire city through their smart city project. > There are two benefits to the strategy. First, it's helpful for existing > Aira explorers because they can use the service as much as they want without > it counting against their monthly plans. > Second, anyone, even those not signed up with an Aira monthly plan, can go > to the iOS App Store or the Google Play Store, download the app, create a > guest account, and use the service for free. As I found out, it's convenient > to have access to Aira in such situations, and it offers the opportunity for > Aira to convert those guests into full-time explorers. Smart stuff. > It was thanks to this program that I gave Aira a shot. Had I been required > to go to the booth to give it a go, I probably would have run out of time > and wouldn't be writing this post. But it was a cinch to download the app > and set up my guest account. > I first decided to put Aira through a simple test. Having arrived in San > Diego after a long journey, I wasn't taking much notice of the hotel layout > when the porter showed me to my room. So, the next morning, I made my first > call to Aira, and asked the friendly agent to guide me to the elevator. Not > only did I get to the elevator effortlessly, I was also guided right to the > button for the elevator. > But the call I will never forget is the one I made to ask for assistance > getting to the exhibit hall while exhibits were being set up. If you've > visited the Grand Hyatt in San Diego, you'll know how cavernous the lobby > can sound. When the lobby is full of people, I find it impossible to > navigate, because there's just so much sound bouncing everywhere. To be > honest, I wasn't expecting much from Aira, but I was keen to see what would > happen. > This is the moment when I transitioned from the intellectual understanding > that "this is quite a good concept", to the emotional connection that made > me say "holy guacamole, this thing is changing my life!" > I'm not a guide dog handler at the moment, but I have been in the past. One > of the advantages of working with a dog over using a cane is that you avoid > many obstacles without ever coming into contact with them. The exception is > if you are a cane user with good echolocation. I think that even with full > hearing, I would have found echolocation difficult in that very noisy lobby, > but it's certainly not viable for me now. Therefore, in that type of > environment, I often find myself hitting people's legs with my cane, as I > try to find a way forward. With the Aira agent talking in my hearing aids > which were also delivering environmental sounds, I was getting information > about where the crowds were, and when I needed to veer to avoid running into > people. I was told when it was necessary to turn to reach my destination and > given confirmation that I was indeed heading in the correct direction. > Because of my hearing, and the fact that I know navigating these > environments can be difficult, I had allowed myself plenty of time to reach > the exhibit hall. But I reached it much more quickly than I had anticipated, > and with much less stress than usual. > When we eventually reached the exhibit hall, which was some considerable > distance away, the agent informed me that the door was closed. I expected > this, since I was heading to the exhibit hall before it was officially open > to the public. The icing on the cake was when she said that she could see a > counter to the left of the door with a sign labelled "Exhibit Services". She > then informed me that there was a man behind that counter and offered to > lead me to him. She did so, and he let me in. Astounded, I thanked the > agent, and ended the call. > Full disclosure, at this point, it gets a bit embarrassing. No technology > has made me cry for joy before. But a stressful experience I have to psych > myself up for had just been made effortless and enjoyable. I was utterly > overwhelmed. This was all achieved with no more than the free app and the > camera on my iPhone X. > Piloting Aira outside the US > I've no doubt that I would have been wowed by Aira even if I had been blind > without a hearing impairment. But, having had a taste of the independence it > was giving me, even better than the independence I had when I was a > traveller without a hearing impairment, I really wanted to see if there was > any way I could take this home to New Zealand. I knew it would be unlikely, > because Aira is very clear that they are only available now in the United > States and I think parts of Canada. But I genuinely felt that having had a > taste of Aira, I would feel a sense of disability if I lost it again. > I met with Aira's CEO, Suman Kanuganti, who kindly agreed to let me pilot > the service here. Since this is a fairly glowing review of the service, I > want to be clear that I am paying the same as everyone else. This is not a > paid advertisement. And I'm aware of the limitations of using the service > here when it's not officially supported. For example, Aira is currently > unavailable between 1 AM and 7 AM Eastern time. At this time of year, that > equates to 5 PM to 11 PM New Zealand time. That's a time when we have had a > need for the service, but I signed up knowing what I was getting into, so > that's an observation rather than a complaint. Even for Aira's existing > customer base, I'm sure many hope that this downtime will soon be a thing of > the past. I'm one of those totally blind people without light perception who > has non-24 sleep/wake disorder. I'm fortunate that because most of my > deliverables can be delivered at any time, I just let my circadian rhythm do > its thing. That means I'm sometimes very productive at 2, 3 or 4 AM. I'm > sure there are many Aira users in the United States in a similar position, > who'd value having access to Aira at that time. > I'll also be providing feedback on any technical or cultural issues relating > to the use of the service here, should they arise. The most obvious cultural > issue is that many of our place names are in the Maori language, the > indigenous language of New Zealand. Understandably, Aira agents don't have > experience pronouncing them correctly, but that's no different from > listening to the same place names spoken by most text-to-speech engines. > When mobile, Bonnie and I are using Aira with our mobile data plans. We > share a cellular plan that has 25 GB of mobile data per month, and our LTE > networks are very robust here, particularly in urban environments. > Signing up as an explorer > Typically, when you sign up as an explorer, you can start using the service > right away with your smart phone, and the hardware is shipped to you. Since > I was at the CSUN conference, I was able to sign up online, and collect my > hardware from the Aira booth. > The ability to use the service as a guest is fairly new, and one of the > problems I had was that I couldn't sign up with the email address I had > associated with my guest account, because the system flagged it as already > in use. It would be nice to have a feature within the app that allowed you > to upgrade to a paid account while signed in as a guest. Hopefully that will > come in time. The only way around it for now is either to sign up with a > different email address or complete the process over the phone. > When you make your first call as a fully-fledged explorer, an Aira agent > assists you to create your profile. It's here that you really start to > appreciate how carefully the services been devised. Suman Kanuganti and his > team have worked closely with Blind people, sought their advice, and taken > it to heart. It would have been easy for a service like this to have become > patronising. Instead, the culture feels like it is truly a partnership > between the explorer and the agent. > As part of the induction process, you are advised that Aira will never tell > you that it's safe to cross the street, and agents will remain silent while > you are crossing. If you are mobile, and the agent detects that you're not > travelling with a cane or a dog, they will disconnect the call. They make it > clear that they are not a substitute for your blindness skills, or for your > mobility tool of choice. And they advise that they keep personal opinions > out of all descriptions and interactions. > You're asked if there are any additional disabilities that it would be > helpful for them to be aware of. I was able to tell them about my hearing > impairment. > Rather like when using JAWS, you are offered three levels of verbosity. The > three levels are explained to you clearly. Your default level is recorded in > your profile. You can change the default at any time, or for a particular > call. The most verbose option will even describe people's facial expressions > as you're walking down the street. > You're asked whether you prefer directions to be given as a clock face, or > in terms of "left" and "right". In a noisy environment, it's easier for me > to differentiate between 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock, than between left and > right. > Once the process is done, all your preferences are recorded and immediately > made available to the agent when you call in. > Ride sharing Integration > Using the APIs of the ride sharing services Uber and Lyft, Aira can connect > to your accounts to both call and monitor your rides. You may ask the agent > to initiate the entire process for you, or you could use the app of your > ride sharing service of choice to call a vehicle, then get the agent online > who can see the car you've been allocated, and help you watch for its > arrival. > Some people have safety concerns about using ride sharing services, since > you might walk up to a car that you think is the one you've called, only to > find its some random person. Having an Aira agent assist you to the vehicle > will avoid that. > It's also a brilliant way to catch drivers who speed away because of your > dog. An Aira agent can take pictures remotely using the camera you're > connecting with, be it the camera on your smart phone or the one built into > the glasses. This gives you photographic evidence of the driver speeding > away. > Sharing minutes > Recently, Aira introduced the ability to share minutes with up to two > additional people. The feature is great for blind couples like Bonnie and > me. Inviting Bonnie to share my minutes was easily done from the app, and > she was signed up in minutes, although there was a technical issue which > prevented her from logging in. This was resolved in a few hours after > contacting Aira. > How we've used Aira > There is a wonderful section on the Aira website and in its app, with > extensive lists of the way that people are using the service. As the father > of two daughters, one use case that both resonated with me and amused me was > the explorer who asked an agent to describe their daughter's new boyfriend. > But here are just a few of the ways that we've used Aira since we've had it. > What does this button do? > It was wonderful to be able to ask an agent, trained to explain things > clearly, how to operate the air-conditioning in my hotel room in San Diego. > I was also curious about a little panel to the right of the air-conditioning > unit. After getting me to look at the unit, the agent took a photo, blew it > up, and told me that it was a control panel for the windows in my hotel > room. I probably wouldn't have bothered investigating it had it not been for > Aira. > Journalism > Bonnie has now embarked on a journalism course. Today's journalists must > operate in a multimedia environment. This includes taking their own photos. > Thanks to the technology VoiceOver offers, it's possible for a blind person > to take good photos. When action is moving fast though, it may not be > possible to capture that action quickly enough. And VoiceOver's camera > functions are limited to recognising people. Seeing AI will recognise > scenes, but only after you've taken the picture. Aira to the rescue. > Just a couple of days after Bonnie began sharing my Aira minutes, she needed > to cover a popular Wellington street festival. Bonnie tells me she couldn't > have done it without Aira. Giving instructions to the agent ahead of time > about the kind of material she wanted to capture, the Aira agent was able to > take pictures at exactly the right time and give Bonnie advice about how to > angle the camera. Her photography lecturer praised the photos. > The agent gave vivid, detailed descriptions of the festival and the people > participating in it, which made it easy for Bonnie to write a descriptive, > colourful newspaper story that wasn't devoid of visual imagery even though > she is blind. > When Bonnie got the munchies after a hard day's journalism, the agent helped > her locate the food truck she wanted from a number that were at the > festival, and then read her the menu on the side of the truck. > Preserving the moment > Since Aira can take pictures using the glasses or camera remotely, we > recently used it at a birthday party we attended to get the perfect picture > for our own records, and for posting to social media. > Compiling reports > When you travel and collect receipts, you end up with little bits of paper, > business cards from cab drivers with receipt information scrawled on the > back, and big pieces of paper. > I've become adept over the years at performing optical character recognition > on all of it for the compilation of expense reports, but it's > time-consuming. I took the stress out of the situation and handed it to > Aira. My agent advised using the camera on the iPhone X for this task rather > than the glasses. She gave instructions regarding the positioning of the > camera, took pictures of all the documents, and I had no doubt that each > receipt was fully in the picture. > She put them all in a single document which she then emailed to me. This > process took probably a third to a quarter of the time it would have usually > taken me. > Transcription > As someone who's been totally blind since birth, I've enjoyed becoming more > familiar with effective use of the camera and understanding the relationship > between distance and getting the subject of a photograph fully in the > picture. When in hotels, I sometimes find getting a good-quality capture of > hotel compendia and in-room dining menus a challenge. The print may have > become faded over time, or there's a wide variation of print types. It can > also take time to work out whether there is print on both sides of the page > or not, and sometimes that can vary even within the same document. > At a recent hotel stay, Aira took all the stress out of rendering the > in-room dining menu accessible to Bonnie and me. The agent very quickly > snapped pictures of all the pages and could see at a glance when the pages > were single or double-sided. Then, the agent transcribed the text into a > fully accessible Word document. I was given the choice as to whether I > wanted a full transcription, which of course took a little longer, or just a > summary of the items on the menu and their prices. > The mysteries of the minibar > Many hotel minibars now have sophisticated sensors that charge you for an > item when you lift it out of the fridge. Rather than hunt around for a > barcode on each bottle, can, and food item, an Aira agent was able to recite > the cans in the fridge in left-to-right order. > Real-time audio description > Bonnie and I recently took a gondola ride in one of the most picturesque > parts of New Zealand. One of our party was sighted, nevertheless, I decided > to call Aira, to ask an agent if she could give me real-time audio > description as we rode the gondola, then as we stood on the viewing > platform. It was a moving experience to get such detailed descriptions of > the water, the tree line and the city below. Our sighted companion was > impressed, saying that Aira had told us things she wouldn't have thought > about describing. > Does Aira harm the accessibility cause? > When I've discussed Aira with some blind people, a few have expressed the > concern that the service may discourage those of us who have it from > continuing to advocate for a truly accessible world. They fear that as > providers of information and services become aware of Aira, they may feel > under less of an obligation to do the right thing when it comes to > accessibility. > For example, if you read this blog regularly, you will know I've been > campaigning about the code to complete the New Zealand census not being > accessible. If I had been an Aira explorer at the time, an Aira agent would > have read the access code to me, and the process would have taken about a > minute maximum. Would I have begun my campaign for the codes to be > inherently accessible if Aira had been in our home to do that for me? I > would like to think so. > A similar concern was expressed when JAWS introduced the ability to perform > OCR on inaccessible PDF files. > I believe Aira is a pragmatic solution that delivers access to us today. > That in no way means that those of us with the skills and inclination to > advocate for a more accessible world shouldn't continue to do so. If we've > been able to use Aira to work around the problem, it's just that, a > work-around. Most of the world's written information today is born > accessible. Someone must take a deliberate step to convert it into something > inaccessible, and we must always object to that occurring. So, we must still > advocate for all aspects of life to be as accessible as possible. > In this highly visual world, there'll always be plenty of tasks for Aira to > perform, even as accessibility improves. > Does Aira erode blindness skills? > The arrival of the pocket calculator, the cell phone with a built-in contact > directory, and many other technologies have been the cause of people > expressing concern about the "dumbing down" of the human race. A few people > I've spoken with about Aira have wondered if it will cause an erosion of > blindness skills among its users. I don't believe so. I contend the impact > will be positive. > For me personally, other circumstances, specifically my hearing impairment, > have made travel time-consuming and exhausting. Freedom of movement should > not be the privilege of the blind elite who happen to find travel intuitive > and easy. Freedom of movement is, in my view, a fundamental human right. > With the ability to travel under less stress, I believe my travel skills, > which may have eroded a little over the years as I've begun avoiding tricky > situations, will in fact improve due to increased use. > Remember, Aira does not replace your cane or dog. You must still know how to > use your cane in a way that helps you locate obstacles and provides you with > clues about your environment. > What it costs, and is it value for money? > Assuming you have a smartphone, there is no other hardware you must purchase > to use Aira. It's all included as part of the package. > The current pricing structure looks like this: > . Basic Plan. 100 regular minutes a month for $89. > . Plus Plan. 200 regular minutes a month for $129. > . Pro Plan. 400 regular minutes a month for $199. > . Premium Plan. Unlimited regular minutes a month for $329. > I believe it is possible to get further discounts on the Pro plan if you pay > a year, or even several years, in advance. > If you run out of minutes, you can purchase additional ones. > You can cancel or upgrade your plan at any time. > Whenever a company provides a service directly to the blind community, there > are always people who will express concern about cost. Unfortunately, the > economic reality is that the cost of research and development, as well as > the overheads involved in running a business, must be spread across a > smaller group of people when providing a service to our community. This > equation is made more difficult because so many people in our community are > unemployed and living hand to mouth. Sure, for some people, Aira will be > worth sacrificing a few daily cups of premium coffee for, but it's not that > easy for everyone. > Some people question whether the service is worth the cost given that there > is a free service, Be My Eyes, which connects you with sighted volunteers. > Be My Eyes is a useful service, and I don't seek to denigrate it at all. I > am signed up with it, have supported it since before it went live, and I use > it from time to time. But Be My Eyes relies on volunteers. Some people are > so keen to assist a blind person that they answer a call when they may have > been better letting it go. Others simply don't explain things clearly > enough. And yes, there are some who are outstanding. But I equate using Be > My Eyes with asking a stranger for directions in the street. Sometimes you > will get somebody who couldn't be more helpful. At other times you will get > somebody who doesn't know their right from their left, or just isn't > observant about the world around them. > With Aira, the agents have been trained extensively, plus they have tools > that help pinpoint your location and provide other data. There's also a > guarantee of privacy with Aira. > I know of people who've used Aira to help them sign employment contracts, > complete tax returns and more. > So, in my view, there is no question that Aira will revolutionise the lives > of many blind people if they can afford to access it. This raises important > public policy questions. Many agencies serving blind people will provide > funding for sighted assistance to be available on-location at specific > times. Perhaps such agencies fund several hours of assistance each week in > the workplace. Other agencies may fund a human reader to visit a blind > person's home. Aira gives you access to sighted assistance on demand, at > your convenience, not at the convenience of the sighted person. This is > important because some tasks may only take a couple of minutes, but they can > be show stoppers on the job until we can get that assistance. In a work > environment, sighted assistance on-demand through Aira has the potential to > improve a blind person's productivity. > There's also the social investment argument. If a much wider range of blind > people can feel comfortable about travelling in unfamiliar areas, government > investment in Aira could pay dividends by improving employability. > Looking to the future > Most blind people become blind later in life. And most of those people don't > have smart phones. This group is often forgotten, so it's encouraging to see > that Aira has been giving them considerable thought. The coming generation > of seniors will be more assertive and tech savvy. They will have had > experience of technology in the workplace, and they are willing to spend > money to ameliorate the consequences of their age-related disability. > However, they may decide that coming to terms with the blindness specific > touchscreen paradigm is just too difficult. Certainly, that's the case now. > Yet I think many seniors would love to have access to Aira. If they can have > an agent assist them to read the newspaper in the morning, describe pictures > of the grandchildren or go through their mail, that's something many would > gladly pay for. > The market for Aira's services is going to increase significantly with the > introduction of their new Horizon technology. Currently, to use Aira, you > need at least two things - a smart phone, and the glasses, both of which > need to be charged. If you want to use it without eating into your data > plan, you'll need to carry the AT&T MiFi device around with you. That also > needs to be charged separately. That's three things in total that need to be > charged. > Within the next few months, Aira is promising to simplify their offering > significantly. They've taken a Samsung Android device, which includes a > physical home button, and developed their own firmware for it. This device > is not designed to be used as a cell phone. Rather than requiring a MiFi, > the data SIM will be in this device. The new Horizon glasses, which are much > more fashionable and elegant looking, are tethered to this device with an > unobtrusive-looking cable. The field of view is much improved, as is the > video quality. That means less need to keep turning one's head at the > instruction of the Aira agent. With the glasses getting their power from the > Horizon device, battery life is massively improved. > This all means that someone who doesn't have a smart phone will fire up the > Horizon device, double tap the button, and talk to an agent. Smart phone > users will retain the option to control their Aira experience via the app > they're used to. > This configuration also reduces latency and any potential for video > degradation. There will no longer be a wireless hop that the video needs to > take between the glasses and the device transmitting the video to an Aira > agent. > Clearly, considerable thought and capital investment has gone into the next > generation of the service. This demonstrates that Aira is continuing to > innovate and thinking about broadening its base. > Over time, artificial intelligence will become smarter, and will be able to > do more of the things that human agents are doing for Aira explorers now. > It's therefore sensible forward planning that Aira has begun work on their > own artificial intelligence engine they are calling Chloe. Initially, Chloe > will offer optical character recognition, and perform functions relating to > the operation and configuration of the Horizon device. I imagine that over > time, Chloe will become more capable. That will increase efficiency for the > explorer and reduce overheads for the company. > Concluding thoughts > Aira's evolution is an exemplary case study of how to tap into a niche > market and create a new, innovative product. Of course, it's not perfect, > but what is? Sometimes, you can lose cellular coverage when you really need > it, causing the connection with the agent to drop. There's nothing Aira can > do about that other than ensuring they're using hardware that maximises the > cellular signal, and to have a robust protocol in place for seeking to > re-establish the connection. But all in all, the service is fantastic. > There've been a few phases of Aira adoption for me. The first was hearing > about it and understanding intellectually that it was a clever idea. The > second was the strong, powerful, emotional realisation that this could > really change my life. The third is the dawning realisation that I'm not > imposing on anybody anymore. Many of us can relate to having sighted family > members or friends who we turn to when we need a pair of working eyes, and > we hope we are not overdoing it. When I first started using Aira, I had a > twinge of reluctance about making calls, wondering if someone might need the > help of the agent more than me. Then, one day, it really dawned on me. The > people at Aira want me to make the call. After all, if I use up all my > minutes, I might buy more. So, when I make a call to Aira, I'm not > inconveniencing anybody, I'm strengthening their bottom line. How wonderful > it is to call on sighted help without feeling like I might be a burden. > If you'd like to try Aira > Due to the exchange rate between the United States and New Zealand, > unfortunately Aira is a little more expensive here than it is in the United > States. Bonnie and I are presently using the Plus plan, at $129 USD a month, > which equates to $179 NZD. When the novelty wears off a little, it will be > interesting to see if we need the 200 minutes. > So, if you would like to give Aira a try, I'd appreciate it if you'd sign up > using our referral link. The referral program means that the person being > referred, and the person who did the referring, each gets a free month. > Pretty good marketing. To take Aira for a spin, activate my referral link. I > hope it makes as much of a difference to you as it has to Bonnie and me. > Are you an Aira explorer? What do you think of the service, and what are > some of the ways you're using it? 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