As an example, if a user draws a "W" on the dimmer, a signal could be sent to an IP connected water sprinkling system to turn on or off the sprinkler.

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Many people across the region will mark the anniversary with prayers, a moment of silence, sprinkling water on mass graves in Indonesia and offering food to monks in Thailand, among other memorials as people in the region try to move forward.

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Dad blessed the house from the attic to the barn by spreading incense smoke and sprinkling holy water.

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After sprinkling some water and murmuring incantations, he duly identified the culprit, who was thrown off with her cargo of vegetables and chickens.

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We would begin praying and sprinkling these rather ordinary implements with yellow turmeric powder, red roli powder, grains of rice, holy water, and flower petals.

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