On completion of each body part, Langevin shares the printer files and assembly instructions on his dedicated blog.

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This same friend brought the three of us together in a company he had founded that was, among other things, focused on developing maintenance manuals and assembly instructions for capital equipment.

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Writing in his blog, he described how contestants are equipped with measuring tapes and soft pencils and then sent out to follow the one-way layout around the store, matching beds, wardrobes and kitchen chairs along the way, wrestling with the Scandinavian names and, later, the assembly instructions.

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Even so, the Welsh Assembly Government has issued very specific instructions as to exactly what services fall under whose responsibility - precisely to end this sort of unseemly wrangling where the patient is the one who ends up losing out.

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