MPs must attend plenary sittings and committee meetings. Session consists of plenary sessions, exclusive or joint Standing Committee sittings and caucus meetings. Etty generally finished life studies during three evenings sittings. Biletsky missed 328 sittings of the Ukrainian parliament. These included attending around 20 seances, experiments in telepathy and sittings with mediums. The Governor still presided at joint sittings of Tynwald. Pennsylvania's three appellate courts also have sittings in Philadelphia. There are regular Buddhist meditation sittings in both the Zen and Vipassana traditions. The governor remained president and member, but systematically absented himself from most of the sittings. The exam was conducted in two sittings. Both Executive Council sittings were on Tuesdays. The music sittings were held at Goa. A Speaker is required to preside at all sittings of the House (46). Creating a portrait can take considerable time, usually requiring several sittings. Each term consists of alternating periods of around two weeks known as "sittings" and "recesses".