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Extinct 'Godzilla' platypus found in Australia
Licking the sticky problem
Ministry seeks system to monitor prison behaviour

Extinct 'Godzilla' platypus found in Australia

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SYDNEY, Nov 05, 2013 (AFP) - A giant extinct species of the platypus with powerful teeth has been discovered in Australia, with a scientist on Tuesday describing the duck-billed water animal as a "Godzilla" like monster.

The new species, named Obdurodon tharalkooschild, was identified by a single but highly distinctive tooth found in Riversleigh in the northeastern Australian state of Queensland - a World Heritage site rich in fossil deposits.

"It pretty well blew our minds," University of New South Wales professor Mike Archer told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. of the animal, which is estimated to be about twice the size of the modern platypus.

"And then bang out of the blue drops this monster. Platypus Godzilla."

Scientists had thought that the platypus, which combines bird, mammal and reptile characteristics, had gradually lost its teeth and become smaller over millions of years, but the latest find contradicts that theory.

"We didn't expect this. It's a huge platypus at the wrong time. But there it was," said Archer of the one-metre (three foot) species.

The modern platypus, a timid and nocturnal animal which lives in deep waterside burrows and is found only in eastern Australia, lacks any teeth as an adult and the scientists do not believe the new extinct species was an immediate ancestor.

"Discovery of this new species was a shock to us because prior to this, the fossil record suggested that the evolutionary tree of platypuses was a relatively linear one," Archer explained in a statement.

"Now we realize that there were unanticipated side branches on this tree, some of which became gigantic."

Archer said he was confident that the single tooth, which was discovered by Rebecca Pian, a PhD candidate at Columbia University in the United States, was sufficient evidence of a new species.

"We know it's a platypus, we also know it's very different from any other toothed platypus we've seen before," he said.

Pian, the lead author of the research published in the US-based Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, said any new species, even though incomplete, was an important aid in understanding more about the fascinating mammals.

The extinct species is believed to have been a mostly aquatic animal like its modern descendant and would have lived in and around freshwater pools in the forests that covered the Riversleigh area millions of years ago.

It probably fed on crayfish and other freshwater crustaceans, as well as small vertebrates such as frogs and turtles, said Suzanne Hand of UNSW's School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Archer said scientists already had concerns about the long-term viability of the platypus and the discovery only added to these.

"It only says that there were more kinds of platypus that are now gone," he said.

Licking the sticky problem

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THE sticky issue of illegal ads at MRT stations and along roads, on pillars and lamp posts, is set to be cut down in size further.

Having already found that anti-stick paint is effective in licking the problem, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) has called a tender to apply the solution at 367 island-wide locations, where the advertisements are rife, by 2017.

The tender also calls for anti-stick clear coating with high transparency that can be applied to glass or plastic panels.

Aside from being against the law, these advertisements, which can range in size from Post-It note to A4, leave unsightly stains after being removed. This is especially when strong adhesives are used.

To fight this, the LTA in 2009 began a trial of anti-stick paint at a sheltered linkway leading to Jurong East MRT station. It proved a success.

Since then, the anti-stick paint has been applied at 252 locations. The LTA previously said that the move would help it save about S$100,000 (RM254,000) a year.

The latest tender will expand the coverage to most places here where complaints about illegal ads are common, said an LTA spokesman.

These locations, which include Ang Mo Kio Avenue 3 and Boon Lay Way, are selected based on the amount of feedback received about ads being stuck on street infrastructure, such as traffic lights, street lights, sign posts and columns at covered linkways and bus shelters.

Besides applying anti-stick paint, the LTA has, since 2010, also introduced 27 notice boards at 21 MRT stations with heavy pedestrian traffic to give people a better option.

It costs 50 cents (RM1.27) a day to put up an A5-size ad.

The spokesman said there were fewer illegal ads at areas which have notice boards and anti-stick paint. — The Straits Times / Asia News Network

Ministry seeks system to monitor prison behaviour

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THE Home Affairs Ministry (MHA) is looking for a high-tech warning system which can detect aggressive or suicidal behaviour among prisoners and suspects, allowing officers to step in before it is too late.

To find out what is available in the market, the ministry has put in a Request for Information (RFI) for a "Human Behaviour Early Detection System". This will allow it to assess the feasibility, performance and cost of such a system.

"There is a need for remote round-the-clock surveillance of a room with automated, near real-time detection of suspicious, aggressive and suicidal human behaviours," the RFI documents state.

Similar systems are being explored elsewhere.

The US National Institute of Justice commissioned a study to develop a prototype sensor system which can measure an inmate's heart rate, breathing and general body motions without it being attached to the prisoner.

This warning system will alert prison officers if an inmate's heart rate or breathing exceeds pre-determined limits.

There were 61 cases of assault in Singapore prisons last year, 40 of which were attacks between inmates.

The rest involved attacks on prison staff. — The Straits Times / Asia News Network

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African leaders tell Congo insurgents to "renounce rebellion"
Police search New Jersey mall for shooter, no injuries reported
Nobel winner Ebadi urges EU, U.S. to ban Iran from TV satellites

African leaders tell Congo insurgents to "renounce rebellion"

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PRETORIA (Reuters) - African leaders told Congo's M23 rebels on Tuesday they must publicly declare an end to their 20-month insurgency to allow the signing of a peace agreement with President Joseph Kabila's government.

The recommendation was made by heads of state from southern Africa and the Great Lakes region who met through Monday night in the South African capital Pretoria to lend their weight to an international push to end the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Despite growing calls for peace, the M23 rebels and government forces were involved in artillery clashes on Monday near Congo's border with Uganda. Both sides blamed the other for the shelling.

A statement released by the South African-hosted summit in Pretoria said a peace agreement in eastern Congo could be signed "on condition that the M23 makes a public declaration renouncing rebellion, after which the Government would make a public declaration of acceptance."

"Five days after this is done, then a formal signing of the agreement would be done," the statement said. It was signed by Malawian President Joyce Banda and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni representing the southern African and Great Lakes region leaders.

M23's political leader Bertrand Bisimwa said on Monday the group was ready to sign the peace deal, but he accused the army of attacking rebel positions with heavy weapons.

Congolese President Kabila was present at the Pretoria meeting. Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who has fiercely denied repeated reports by U.N. experts that his country backs and helps the M23 rebels, did not attend but sent his foreign minister.

The summit congratulated Congolese government forces and a beefed-up U.N. peacekeeping mission in eastern Congo for "recapturing M23 strongholds and restoring government control".

A rapid Congolese army advance in recent weeks has driven the M23 rebels from towns and cornered them in the steep, forested hills along the Ugandan border, raising the prospect of peace in Congo's violence-plagued east.

(Writing by Pascal Fletcher)

Police search New Jersey mall for shooter, no injuries reported

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(Reuters) - A person with a gun opened fire on Monday evening in a massive New Jersey shopping mall shortly before closing time, leading police to evacuate the mall and search for the shooter, a county official said. No injuries were reported.

Witnesses said they heard multiple shots seconds apart inside the Garden State Plaza mall in the northern New Jersey town of Paramus, while CNN reported that the shooter had fired at security cameras.

Televised images from outside showed a heavy police presence with dozens of cruisers converging at the mall.

"Multiple gunshots were heard. We believe it is one shooter. I know there is an active shooter near the Nordstrom area," said Jeanne Baratta, Chief of Staff at Bergen County, where the town is located. She added that a police SWAT team was on site.

The police "believe the gunman is still in the mall," Baratta said. "Right now the Bergen County SWAT team along with the K-9 unit and other law enforcement are going store by store. It's a very large mall with multiple levels."

Jonathan Astacio, a witness who was inside the mall, told CNN he heard several shots: "We heard two loud booms ... Then we heard two more shots and saw people running."

The mayor of Paramus, Richard LaBarbiera, told reporters that no injuries had yet been reported.

One woman at a store in the mall, who asked Reuters not to disclose what store she was hiding in, reported hearing shots.

"I heard the shooting. We're still stuck in the stock room right now. I personally heard five shots," said the woman. Afraid the shooter may still be free, she said: "I haven't gone out again."

(Additional reporting by Eric Johnson and Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Eric Walsh and Philip Barbara)

Nobel winner Ebadi urges EU, U.S. to ban Iran from TV satellites

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Monday called on the European Union and United States to ban Iran from using U.S. and European satellites to broadcast what she described as the Islamic Republic's propaganda.

Ebadi, an Iranian lawyer and former judge who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her work promoting human rights in Iran, accused Western powers of focusing too little attention on rights abuses as they pursue a deal with Tehran aimed at curbing its nuclear ambitions.

She criticized the economic and financial sanctions regime against Iran, a web of U.S., EU and U.N. measures aimed at crippling Tehran's nuclear and missile programs and pressuring the government to abandon what Western powers and their allies suspect is a quest to develop an atomic weapons capability.

"Economic sanctions have impacted powerfully," Ebadi, 66, told Reuters in an interview. "People have become very poor. Some kinds of medications cannot be found in Iran. The price of food is higher in Iran than in the U.S. or Europe."

The sanctions that are harming ordinary Iranians should be replaced with ones that weaken the government but not the people, she said. One example she gave involved barring Iran from using U.S. and European satellites to broadcast programs in more than a dozen non-Farsi languages outside the country.

"We have to stop the government of Iran from being able to use the satellites," Ebadi said through an interpreter. "This way we can close down the propaganda microphones of the government."

She also said that senior government officials, from deputy minister up, should face travel bans and asset confiscations when they have funds deposited with European and American banks.

In a response to Ebadi's remarks, Alireza Miryousefi, spokesman for Iran's U.N. mission, said that after Iran's recent presidential election "held in an open, free, fair, transparent and democratic way, the Islamic Republic of Iran has entered into a new stage of democracy and the rule of law."

Ebadi, who has been living in exile in Britain since 2009, expressed disappointment with Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, widely seen as more moderate than his stridently anti-Western predecessor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

"The motto of Mr Rouhani was that he was going to change the conditions and this is why people voted for him," she said. "Unfortunately that's not what happened."

IRAN SAYS RIGHTS SAFEGUARDED

Miryousefi said that "Iran, especially after the election of President Rouhani, has put a new emphasis on its unwavering dedication towards the promotion and protection of all human rights inside and outside the country."

"Iran has taken a long-term approach and genuine measures to safeguard all human rights of its people including through ensuring their compliance with all its relevant commitments under international law, taking into account principles enshrined in the constitution," he said in an emailed response.

One example of Iran's new approach, Miryousefi said, is that Rouhani has instructed his government to draft a "Charter of Citizenship Rights" and ordered that all government complaints against journalists be withdrawn, leading to the release and pardon of 86 inmates.

He added that Rouhani has appointed a special assistant on minority affairs to ensure that ethnic and religious minorities' rights are safeguarded.

Ebadi said the number of executions in Iran since Rouhani's June election was twice what it was a year ago, when Ahmadinejad was still in power. Nearly all of the opposition activists in prison before he was elected are still in prison and religious and ethnic minorities continue to be persecuted, she added.

Ebadi cited figures from the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), which reported that over 200 people, including as many as four minors, were executed between June 14 and October 1. She said it was double the number of executions that took place in the same period in 2012.

"Unfortunately the world focuses on nuclear energy more than human rights and does not pay attention to the situation of violations of human rights in Iran," she said. "And this is why the human rights conditions are worsening in Iran."

Later this week, senior officials from the five permanent U.N. Security Council members - Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States - and Germany will meet with Iranian negotiators in Geneva to discuss the possibility of a deal on Iran's nuclear program, which Tehran says is purely peaceful.

The United States has said that last month's six-power talks with Iran aimed at ending the decade-long standoff over Tehran's nuclear ambitions have been more productive than previous rounds. Western diplomats say that is because of the sting of sanctions, which Tehran is keen to remove.

Ebadi, who will be meeting with U.N. officials and diplomats while she is in New York, said the six powers should be discussing more than nuclear centrifuges in Geneva. She warned EU nations not to rush to restore ties with Tehran's government without improvements in Iran's human rights record.

"My question for European countries is - what if they agree with the government of Iran on nuclear issues," she asked.

"Are you willing to shake hands with a government that stones women? Are you going to trust a government that executes its political opposition? Are you willing to compromise standards of human rights, that you believe in, for your own security?"

(Editing by Paul Simao)

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Tall order for Stephen Merchant

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British actor Stephen Merchant plays his, erm, shortcomings for laughs in HBO's Hello Ladies.

APPARENTLY, Stephen Merchant has had more than his share of romantic misfortunes in his 38 years. Well, at least enough to turn them into an eight-episode comedy series entitled Hello Ladies on HBO.

The series, which premiered in Malaysia last month, is about a gawky Englishman and web designer named Stuart doing his darnedest to find the woman of his dreams – and failing spectacularly.

Speaking to Merchant on the phone – he calls from London where he is nursing a day-old cold – it is hard to fathom why he has been so unlucky in love as he is intelligent, polite, funny (of course) and very conversant (especially about the pitfalls of dating).

Surely, the fact that he towers over an average person (he stands at 2.01m) and has unusually large eyes have nothing to do with his misadventures with the ladies, right? Well, as it turns out, it has more to do with how he approached the fairer sex in his younger days.

Merchant shares: "The key thing is don't try too hard ... don't try too hard to get into nightclubs, don't try to be something you are not, you know, like try to act like James Bond – you are definitely not James Bond. Don't offer to buy drinks unless you are willing to pay for all the drinks."

All the things on his "don't" list – either based on real events or made up – form the basis of Hello Ladies, which Merchant stars in, writes, directs and produces.

He originally performed it as a stand-up comedy act; one of the showcases in Los Angeles was attended by some folks from HBO, who then suggested turning it into a 30-minute sitcom.

What intrigued Merchant most about their proposal was that this tall, pale, nerdy and socially-awkward loser would be based in LA, a land he sees occupied with perfect people and somewhere he'd stick out even more.

"(Stuart) grew up with the fantasy that LA is sort of full of glamorous people, beautiful parties and VIPs. And he wants access to it, but he is not part of it."

Merchant collaborated with two American writers, Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, and together they pooled all their "pitiful dating stories" for the show.

Like this one: "There's a story that Lee told me. He chased a girl up a party in Hollywood Hills and when he got there, he realised that she was seeing someone else. So he was stuck at the party with no way back from the Hill.

"He couldn't get a cab and he's terrified of coyotes. So he was kind of walking down the hill just making 'Yip! Yip!' noises to scare off anything that might come out and pounce on him. That is something we chose to dramatise in the show. A lot of our real stories are dramatised, one way or another, in the show."

As for just how much of Merchant is in Stuart, Merchant admits: "There is a little bit of the 15-year-old me – the kind of awkward guy who is not comfortable in his own skin. And there's the 25-year-old me who is working too hard to seem cool and sexy.

"There's a little bit of the 30-year-old me – after the success of The Office – feeling a little bit entitled, like why hasn't the world opened up to me now? There are aspects of me in there."

Ah yes, The Office – a series that made both Merchant and his comedy partner, Ricky Gervais, famous. The two have worked together on The Office (the British original), Extras and Life's Too Short. Gervais is, however, not involved in Hello Ladies simply because the stand-up show was Gervais-free; the comedian has had the same girlfriend since his 20s and has no clue about being single.

"It's still a bit strange not to have Ricky there because he is very reassuring. But I have all these other writers who are great, funny and smart ... and they understand how American TV works."

But will Gervais ever make a guest appearance on the show? "Well, he's not in the first season. It's not inconceivable that he'd be in the show down the road. But I kind of prefer to find – with what I am doing – new faces, really. To cast people who are not familiar to viewers because they don't bring with them any baggage.

"They are fresh and you can kind of create new characters. If you bring in Ricky, then it'd be more like a stunt. It's not just Ricky. As soon as you bring in some celebrity, they bring with them a certain baggage. That could work sometimes, but on this show, it might just make it a little unbalanced. But, never say never."

Nonetheless, Gervais' presence is somewhat felt on the set of Hello Ladies. According to Merchant, he likes to keep things loose and fresh because first of all, he is not very good at remembering lines. "I just never memorised lines very well. I don't know what it is, even if I have written them."

And the other reason: "When I used to work with Ricky, specifically on The Office, he would spend ages trying to make the other actors laugh. And I didn't understand it. I would get angry, 'Why are you doing this? You are slowing everything down. That was a great take and you ruined it.'

"And then, I found that I would do the exact same thing. I'd be in a scene and I'd make the other actors laugh for my own amusement. It's such a weird perverse thing. ... I mean, the most juvenile stuff ... the most adolescent nonsense which makes me giggle like a schoolboy. It's pathetic."

Having unsophisticated fun aside, the still-single actor says he is more together than Stuart – having figured out some things about life and love that Stuart has yet to. His female friends include actresses Rose Byrne and Hayley Atwell.

However, he couldn't help but be self-deprecating one last time about his present romantic situation: "My fortunes got better, (in) that I get turned down by even more beautiful women. And that's a win for me."

> Hello Ladies airs every Monday at 9.30pm on HBO (Astro Ch 411/HD Ch 431).

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From Hit-Girl to tormented teen

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Self-assured young actress Chloë Grace Moretz turns into a lost girl in Carrie.

It's conceivable that at some point in the near future, Chloë Grace Moretz could conquer the world.

Perched on a sofa at a West Hollywood hot spot in slim black pants and a gray cardigan, the 16-year-old displays the same sort of unbridled moxie that she channeled as the pint-sized, foul-mouthed superhero Hit-Girl in the Kick-Ass movies.

Her girlishness still comes through – Moretz laughs easily and has a fondness for the word "dude," but when talking about her career path, she's all business, articulating her professional goals with the conviction of a savvy strategist plotting a corporate takeover. When she speaks, she looks you in the eye.

Even her Twitter bio offers a message of empowerment, advising her more than 725,000 followers to "live life to the fullest and never back down."

That innate confidence, however, nearly proved a stumbling block to her landing the lead role in the Carrie remake, a new take on the Stephen King novel first brought to the screen in 1976.

The actress auditioned for nearly 11 hours before she was cast as Carrie, the bullied girl who unleashes her telekinetic powers after being drenched in pig's blood at the high school prom.

"I've lived a lot of life at a young age," Moretz said on a recent September afternoon. "I'm close to the age of the character but that doesn't mean I'm the vulnerability of the character or that I have the virgin quality that Carrie has. I had to prove my worth, basically."

Directed by Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry), the new Carrie contemporises King's tale for the age of CG effects and cyberbullying, and it arrives as a sort of commercial box office test for director and star.

It marks the first title role in a studio film for Moretz, though the actress has been steadily working to segue into more mature parts.

Her resume already includes supporting turns in Martin Scorsese's Hugo and Tim Burton's Dark Shadows, and such indie projects as Texas Killing Fields and (500) Days Of Summer.

Moretz said she was only 10 or 11 when she watched Brian DePalma's Carrie, which earned star Sissy Spacek her first Oscar nomination and ranks as one of the most thrilling movies in cinema history, according to the American Film Institute.

But the actress, who at the time was filming the moody vampire tale Let Me In, doesn't remember being especially unnerved by it.

"I was brought up in the era of Rob Zombie movies, which are terrifying," Moretz said, drawing out the syllables of "terr-i-fy-ing" to emphasise her point.

"DePalma movies are scary, but at the end of the day, it's slightly cheesy because they didn't quite have the money they have nowadays to make things look very realistic. I'm terrified of real psycho stories, not, like, I'm going to strangle you with my powers."

As in the original story, Carrie's powers in the new film arrive with the onset of menstruation.

The story opens with the shy teen – who is coping not only with a deranged single mother who routinely locks her in a prayer closet, but also the jeers of the popular crowd at school – getting her first period in the shower after gym class.

Rather than helping the sheltered girl, who has no idea what's happening to her, the other students pelt her with tampons.

Things devolve from there, leading to the prank at the prom that pushes Carrie to use her budding supernatural abilities for revenge.

To help Moretz tap into Carrie's fragile psyche, Peirce spoke to the actress for hours about her adolescent insecurities and even took her to women's shelters to talk with people who had experienced real-world hardship.

"I said to her, 'You've been working on red carpets, hanging out with Tim Burton and Martin Scorsese and that's great. You're wildly successful, but that is completely opposite of what we need,'" Peirce recalled. "'I don't want you to be the precocious girl. I want you to be the broken woman.'"

Peirce also scheduled a weeks-long intensive rehearsal period in Toronto last year just before filming began, during which time Moretz bonded with Julianne Moore, who plays Carrie's disturbed, deeply religious mother, Margaret.

"I look up to (Moore) like crazy," Moretz said. "She's a mentor to me now. There were moments where we'd just start laughing because we were doing the weirdest stuff we've ever done. We would have crazy conversations and then we'd be crying and killing each other."

Apart from Moore and actress Judy Greer, who plays Carrie's sympathetic gym teacher Miss Desjardin, the supporting cast is filled with relative newcomers including Portia Doubleday as chief mean girl Chris, British model Gabriella Wilde as the more kind-hearted Sue Snell and Ansel Elgort as her boyfriend, Tommy (Elgort already has roles booked in two anticipated adaptations of young adult novels, Divergent and The Fault In Our Stars, both set for release in 2014).

Though Moretz ranked as a veteran among the cast, she described the experience of shooting the movie as grueling and credits the presence of her mother and one of her four older brothers with helping her through the production.

"I would come home from the set just drained," Moretz said. "I would have to stay for 18 hours and just be in that mind-set of Carrie, which is the darkest, most suicidal area that you could be in. It's hard to stay there your entire day. I would look in the mirror and be, like, I don't know who I am right now."

"What was amazing to me was how much Chloë grew up," Peirce said. "I think that was extraordinary because that was my concern. I needed her to grow up, and I needed her to grow up on screen, and she just came to life."

Moretz has a theory on why she is attracted to characters who are out of the ordinary.

"I think the reason I do a lot of dark roles and I'm OK with getting to this dark stuff is because I don't have a dark life," Moretz said. "I have an incredibly normal life. I have a family that loves me. I've had an amazing childhood." – Los Angeles Times/McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

> Carrie opens in cinemas nationwide on Nov 7.

New 'Desolation Of Smaug' visuals

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Filmmaker Peter Jackson reveals seven movie character posters on social media.

AS a run-up to the highly anticipated The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug "global fan event" happening later today, New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson revealed seven new character posters from the movie this morning.

The posters are of Thranduil, Thorin, Gandalf, Legolas, Bilbo, Tauriel and Bard and can be seen on Jackson's Facebook page.

Comments from fans prove that the visuals are pretty well received, save for a few grouses. One of the biggest complaints is that Bilbo's face has been overly "photoshopped" .

"Everyone looks great but Bilbo ... such is his life!" said one fan. "Will Ferrell, is that you?" said another, suggesting that the image resembles that of the American comedian.

The collection of seven new character posters on Peter Jackson's Facebook page.

Jackson has not responded to any of the comments, most probably because he and his team are busy preparing for the live presentation, which is happening sometime on Nov 4 – the director has yet to reveal the times – in London, New York and Los Angeles (Nov 5 in Wellington, New Zealand).

"This is how it's going to work: The 4 host cinemas will all have members of the Desolation Of Smaug cast on stage, and we'll all be satellite-linked to allow everyone to participate in a simultaneous Q&A ... as well as present a few special surprises. Additional cinemas will be set up in select locations worldwide where fans can gather and watch the events unfold live. If you can't be there in person the event will also be streamed live on the Internet," said Jackson on his Facebook page.

The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug opens in cinemas nationwide next month. — Melody L. Goh

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