The debates, each three hours long, were convened in Ottawa (August 21), Freeport (August 27), Jonesboro (September 15), Charleston (September 18), Galesburg (October 7), Quincy (October 13), and Alton (October 15).
Why did it take so long to convene?
The meeting was set to discuss potential human rights abuses in the country — and was convened long before the US accused the country of being involved in the Sony hack — but the country has now refused to come to the meeting.
The cool response from the Freedom Summit, a day-long conservative rally convened by Steve King, an Iowa congressman beloved by the Tea Party, came at the end of a week in which Obama made the case for what he called "middle-class economics" in his State of the Union address in Washington.
The Undefeated, a new site from ESPN, a media company built on coverage of sports, ran its own week-long series and convened a televised town hall on urban shootings and their hidden costs.
You've probably heard of the Burning Man Festival, a week-long experimental community convened annually on the Playa of the Black Rock area of the Nevada Desert with a strong emphasis on art.
Not long ago Mr. Landesman convened a meeting of the National Council on the Arts, an Endowment advisory body.
It has greater depth than the one that convened against Long Run at Kempton, and raises the bar for Flemenstar in quality as well as distance.
The panel needs the agreement of 14 of its 18 members for its recommendations to go to Congress for a vote, a prospect that has been a long shot since it convened earlier this year.
The city convened a long-term recovery committee.
