Paris to launch electric car sharing program (AP)

PARIS ? Paris, in its latest bid to be an innovator of the City of Tomorrow, is launching an electric car-sharing program to cut air and noise pollution on the city's medieval cobblestone streets and beyond.

Autolib', a project built on the success of the city's bike-rental scheme, makes its debut Monday and officials want the self-service e-cars to be as much a part of Paris life as the Eiffel Tower or Notre Dame Cathedral.

While many world cities have been developing greener alternatives to carbon-emitting vehicles, Paris says its program is the biggest of its kind: 250 vehicles hit the road on Monday, 2,000 are expected by next summer and 3,000 are planned within the next two years.

The four-seat compact Bluecar ? even though it's really gray ? is a collaboration of Italian car designer Pininfarina and French conglomerate Groupe Bollore, which hopes to showcase its Lithium Metal Polymer battery that powers the car.

Prospective users will need a valid ID, driver's license and credit card before signing up online or by a videoconference with an customer service representative at one of 40 special glassed-in shelters in Paris and dozens of suburban towns also taking part.

Standard subscriptions cost euro10 ($13.5) a day, euro15 ($20) a week, and euro144 ($195) a year. Beyond that, the hourly fees run from euro4 to euro9 based on the rental plan ? and users' cards can be charged in case of damage to the vehicles.

To get going, users swipe a magnetized card against a driver's-side window to open the door, and a key tethered to the steering column starts the car. It comes with bells and whistles, literally ? a button on the steering column lever produces a repetitive beep to alert Paris' many pedestrians that the silent car is on its way.

"The city's first interest is fighting air pollution, these cars not only don't emit carbon dioxide but localized exhaust fumes either ? and they don't make noise: (Studies show) the No. 1 nuisance in the city is noise," said Sylvain Marty, who heads the multi-city Autolib' partnership led by Paris and private-sector affiliates.

Autolib' also tackles what automotive analysts have long said is a big hurdle for the development of electric cars: a lack of infrastructure ? not enough charging stations. For euro180 a year, owners of electric cars can use the spots to juice up their own vehicles at the Autolib' charging stations.

For the last six months, crews with jackhammers have been outfitting sidewalks with some of the 1,200 charging stations and marking off parking spaces that will be reserved exclusively for Autolib' users.

Those promoting the vehicle say it can run for 250 kilometers (150 miles) on a single charge.

"I personally tried driving it more than four hours, in traffic, with the heat on full blast and I wasn't able to get it below 70 percent charge," said Marty. "For city use, that's more than enough."

Some 2,000 people have already registered for Autolib' accounts, and curious city officials from places like Guangzhou, China, or Rio de Janeiro have traveled to Paris to check it out, Marty said.

As is often France's wont, detractors and skeptics abound.

The country's main Green party movement says the electric cars will drain more energy from France's nuclear plants, which they oppose; will require battery disposal; and will ultimately encourage people to drive more.

City officials insist there's little risk to taxpayers, because the private sector companies have signed a 12-year commitment.

Groupe Bollore, which is headed by a friend of conservative French President Nicolas Sarkozy, says at least 80,000 subscriber are needed for the program to be profitable ? not expected for seven years, officials say.

"We're banking on word of mouth from people who try it, like it, and tell themselves 'I've got to sign up!'" Marty said.

Other cities have similar projects, but much smaller in scale.

Berlin launched a pilot program last spring that combines a network of 40 electric cars and bicycles with the city's existing public transport system. Those cars, owned by German railway operator Deutsche Bahn, are part of a fleet of 65 electric vehicles also in Hamburg, Frankfurt and Saarbruecken.

Switzerland's biggest car-sharing organization, Mobility, has started offering electric cars at some of its hundreds of pickup points across the country.

Promoters know Autolib' is no panacea: Even at 3,000 vehicles, it won't be big enough to replace personal vehicles or public transport as the principal way of getting around a metro area of roughly 12 million people.

"Autolib' is all about complementing other means of transport ? this isn't about competing with public transportation or" the bike sharing program, said Marty.

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Art Collective Melts Modelling Clay into Stunning Portraits [Art]

Jackson Pollock is one of my favorite artists—the depth and delicateness of his paint dribblings is simply sublime. Argentinian art collective Mondongo carries on his artistic legacy but without paint. Instead, they use Plasticine—melted modelling clay. More »


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Braised short ribs

Try this modified 'pressure cooker' technique to make tender braised ribs in less than 2 hours.

Short Ribs? Wow!

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Short ribs are hot right now. Apparently the word ?wow? has been used to describe them so many times there?s a whole google category called ?short ribs wow.? I get it. Short ribs are wow in every way ? their rich flavor, succulent texture, their ease in preparation.

If you follow my modified pressure cooker technique, they are done in just 1-1/2 hours or half the usual cooking time. And check out this week?s video, you?ll see how easy they are to make.

So make a batch of short ribs one of these busy holiday weekends. Have some friends over and wait for the ?wows.? Or serve it for Sunday supper knowing you?ve got a heat-and-serve meal ready to go later in the week.

Braised Short Ribs
Serves 6

12 short ribs (about 3-1/2 pounds)
1 tablespoon olive oil
Salt and ground black pepper
1 large onion, cut into medium dice
3 garlic cloves, minced
2 teaspoons dried thyme leaves
3 tablespoons flour
1-1/2 cups each: red wine and chicken broth
1 can (14.5 ounces) petite diced tomatoes

Adjust rack to lower-middle position and heat oven to 450 degrees F. Toss short ribs evenly with oil and a light sprinkling of salt and pepper.

Meanwhile, heat a heavy-bottomed Dutch oven or soup kettle over medium-high heat. Working in 2 batches to avoid overcrowding, add short ribs to hot pan.? Cook each batch, turning only once, until well browned on each side, 5 to 6 minutes.

Drain all but 1 tablespoon of the fat from the pan. Add onion; saut? until lightly brown and translucent, about five minutes.? Add garlic and thyme; saut? until fragrant, about a minute.? Stir in flour, then wine, followed by chicken broth and tomatoes.? Return short ribs to the pot and bring to a simmer.

Place a sheet of heavy-duty foil over pot. Use a potholder to press down foil so that it touches stew.? Seal foil completely around edges.? Place lid snugly on pot. Place pot in oven and cook until ribs are fall-off-the-bone tender, about 1-1/2 hours.

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PFT: 1- or 2-game suspension expected for Suh

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In the days since Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh pushed the helmet of Packers guard Evan Dietrich-Smith into the ground and then stomped on his arm while walking away, a sense has emerged that Suh should receiving a suspension of two or more games, given his history and the egregious nature of his conduct.

But a multi-game suspension may not happen, given the history of suspensions for on-field conduct meted out by Commissioner Roger Goodell.? Apart from the five-game suspension received in 2006 by former Titans defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth (who coincidentally returns to Tennessee today in his third game with the Buccaneers), no player has been suspended for more than one game by Goodell, via Gene Washington.

The following year, Goodell (via Washington) suspended former Cowboys safety Roy Williams one game after his third horse-collar tackle of the season.

The next year, Goodell (via Ray Anderson) suspended Buccaneers defensive back Elbert Mack one game for launching himself and making helmet-to-helmet contact with Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan; it was Mack?s second flagrant hit in three games.? Also in 2008, Jets safety Eric Smith received a one-game suspension and a $50,000 fine for a flagrant helmet-to-helmet hit on then-Cardinals receiver Anquan Boldin.

In 2009, Goodell (again via Ray Anderson) suspended Dante Wesley of the Panthers for launching at Bucs punt returner Clifton Smith while he was waiting to catch the ball.? Wesley struck Smith in the head with a shoulder and forearm.

Again, Suh?s history of fines will be a factor, and his failure to express genuine remorse won?t help him.? Balanced against that will be the fact that he already has essentially been suspended for nearly half of one game, since he was ejected early in the third quarter.

So don?t be surprised if Suh is suspended for only one game.? Though he committed a Haynesworthy stomp, there?s a huge difference between stepping on a guy?s arm, which Suh did, and ripping off a player?s helmet and shredding his bare forehead with a cleat, which Haynesworth did.

But feel free to cast your own ballot below.? It was the subject of the FRS poll question when yours truly hosted The Dan Patrick Show on Friday.? Here?s another chance to sound off on what should happen.

UPDATE 10:35 a.m. ET:? When posting this I didn?t realize that our good friend Mike Freeman of CBSSports.com has posted similar information.? Here?s the link to Freeman?s take.

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American filmmaker in Cairo tells of arrest ordeal

Jehane Noujaim, an American-Egyptian filmmaker, has been released by Egyptian authorities after being arrested while covering protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square. NBC News spoke with her following her release.

By Cheryll Simpson, NBC News

CAIRO, Egypt?? An American filmmaker and journalist?told Friday how she was arrested and accused of throwing Molotov cocktails by the Egyptian?security forces?as she fled from clouds of?tear gas.

Jehane Noujaim,?an award-winning filmmaker?best-known for her al-Jazeera TV documentary "Control Room," was seized by security forces while documenting clashes in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

She was detained in the city's Tora prison for 36 hours without a phone and her camera was confiscated,?Noujaim said in an interview with NBC News.

Noujaim, who is of Egyptian descent,?was not physically harmed during her detention ??in contrast to fellow American-Egyptian activist Mona Eltahawy, who told msnbc.com on Thursday that riot police beat her, sexually assaulted her and dragged her by her hair.


She was near Tahrir Square on Wednesday evening?to?record events because she has been making a?film over the past 10 months about the country's revolution and the role of activists in the now-famous street.

"With tear gas everywhere, myself and my crew got separated from each other. I was just trying to basically get out of the area because the tear gas is incredibly strong," she said.

"I ran into then one military guy ... my camera got taken, my eyepiece got broken by him, he called me a spy; whereas the rest of the military had been very helpful in getting us out of the situation, this particular military guy was absolutely not," she said.

Noujaim said it was many hours after her arrest before she was told the reason she had been detained.

After days of deadly clashes between security forces and protestors, a shaky truce seems to be sticking, but despite mounting pressure, the military says it will maintain in power until Monday's long-awaited parliamentary elections. Ayman Mohyeldin reports from Cairo.

"My charge was throwing Molotov cocktails and destroying public property," she said. "If I throw a rock I'd hit the back of the head of the protester in front of me ... that claim was so ridiculous, yet I was in prison for 36 hours because of it."

"If that happens to me, imagine what happens to a kid who gets picked up off the street who doesn't have all of these connections," she added.

"We were taken to Tora prison in one of these big blue trucks driven there and back again. Our phones were gone at this point so we weren't able to contact anybody," she said.

Hope?for future
Despite her ordeal, Noujaim spoke of her belief that Egypt would soon have "systems of law" in place.

"These changes take time and I don't want to put this gigantic blame on the poor kids in the police or the poor kids in the army," she said.

"My hope is that ... people all around Egypt will soon be able to have systems of law in place, which really do protect their rights because before human rights are dealt with, before these systems of law are in place, it's very difficult to talk about democracy and politics and who one should vote for," she said.

Noujaim?said the experience of being involved in the Tahrir Square protests was "indescribable."

"I don't want to say that Tahrir represents the entire country, but it does represent the hopes and the dreams of so many people in the country," she said.

"What does it accomplish, it's people out there saying that things still need to change and it's a beautiful incredible energy when you're there and you're listening to people that are willing to do whatever it takes to change the mentality and to change the systems in the country."

Edited by msnbc.com's Alastair Jamieson

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Sahar Aziz: Rule Of Law, Not Rule By Law for Egypt

Egypt is forever changed. Whether ruled by a civilian government or a military junta, gone are the days when the government can blithely dismiss the will of the people or coerce them into obedience. This most recent wave of mass protests demonstrates Egyptians' refusal to go back to the dark ages of iron fisted dictatorship. Government accountability is the new normal.

Holding a government accountable, however, is of little value if it is ad hoc and necessitates violence. Rather, meaningful accountability occurs when it is embedded in a legal system based on a societal expectation that the government serves the people, not the other way around. The January 25 revolution and each subsequent wave of protests are rooted in demands for oversight and transparency of government.

The time is ripe to invest in rule of law in Egypt.

Thus far, Egyptians have had little choice but to go to the streets to make their demands heard. What often starts out as a peaceful expression of political will quickly turns violent at the hands of the current military junta. Agitators are government hired thugs or state police tasked with beating, shooting, and poisoning innocent civilians with potent military grade tear gas.

While exigent circumstances, namely the SCAF's refusal to hand over power to a civilian government, warrant mass demonstrations, this model is unsustainable. Resorting to the streets every time a government fails to implement the will of the people does not come without a significant price to the country. The ensuing political instability keeps tourism, a major source of Egypt's national income, at historic lows. It also shuts down the stock exchange, closes factories, and puts hundreds of thousands of Egyptians out of work.

These adverse consequences are cited by a significant number of Egyptians increasingly frustrated with the ongoing protests in Tahrir Square. They emphasize their need to work, feed their families, send their kids to schools, and return to a sense of normalcy in their everyday lives. Many question if democracy and stability are compatible, and if forced to pick they would choose the latter.

Like past dictators, it is precisely such disillusionment that the military hopes will defeat those demanding meaningful democracy now, not later. What started out as a revolution has transformed into a war of attrition between Egyptian nationalists of all political stripes committed to transforming Egypt to a meaningful democracy and an illegitimate military junta engaged in duplicity, delay tactics, and coercion to hijack the revolution.

Unless the focus shifts to transitioning Egypt to a nation with a strong rule of law foundation where government accountability occurs on a daily basis, the military will have the upper hand in this asymmetrical battle.

Egypt has a rich legal history that has produced one of the most complex and sophisticated legal systems in the Middle East. But this very system has been one of the strongest tools in the arsenal of Egypt's dictators. Mubarak and his predecessors were notorious for concentrating their power through rule by law.

The SCAF has proven itself to be no exception. They have granted themselves extraordinary powers through legal decrees and supra-constitutional legal declarations, surpassing Mubarak's tyranny.

Not to be mistaken with rule of law, rule by law allows government officials to manipulate laws to concentrate and further entrench their power while eliminating political opposition. In contrast, rule of law ensures no one is above the law, all citizens are treated equally before the law, adjudicators of disputes are independent and objective, and legitimate grievances can be redressed without destabilizing mass protests.

Many legal reforms are needed but none are more important for government accountability than freedom of information laws. Such laws are glaringly absent in Egypt, denying the citizenry and media accurate information necessary to identify and rectify flagrant abuses of power. Similarly, laws regulating nongovernmental organizations strips civil society the independence and autonomy to perform its indispensable role in government oversight. The independence of the judiciary, the bedrock of a functional rule of law system, has also been substantially compromised over the past thirty years.

Absent these and many other needed legal reforms, Egyptians will be left with no other choice than to turn to the streets, as they should when faced with the false choice between oppression and freedom. But for those who believe democracy and stability are not mutually exclusive, the time is ripe to invest in transforming Egypt's corrupted rule by law system to transparent and fair rule of law.

Despite the international community pouring millions of dollars into Egypt, not enough of it is going towards supporting Egyptian lawyers, democracy activists, and academics seeking to implement legal reforms that allow the people to hold their government accountable. This paves the way for combating public corruption, promoting equal rights for minorities and women, and defending human rights.

The past tumultuous six months prove that Egyptians are willing to make the sacrifices necessary to implement democracy. Never again will they allow themselves to be denied the fundamental right to control their national destiny.

Strengthening the rule of law is a potent tool to that end.

Sahar Aziz is an Associate Professor at Texas Wesleyan School of Law, a legal fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, and a member of the Egyptian American Rule of Law Association.

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On Cairo's Violent Streets, an Untenable Status Quo Meets an Unwritten Future (Time.com)

"Say it, don't be afraid: the military council has to leave," chanted some of the tens of thousands of protesters who thronged Cairo's Tahrir Square Tuesday night. Their slogan was a combative response to the junta's plan, announced hours earlier in an unprecedented television address by Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, for a transfer of power to an elected civilian government next summer. But with at least 31 dead and 600 wounded in ongoing clashes in and around the square over the past four days, Tantawi's offer to expedite a handover to civilian executive authority that his Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) had originally planned to delay until 2013, was too little, too late ? at least for the many thousands that have taken to the streets again, having risked life and limb to oust Mubarak, only to see authoritarian power revert to the military core of his regime.

If it was designed to calm the situation, Tantawi's speech had the opposite effect: Following his broadcast, battles raging in Tahrir's side streets grew even more ferocious, spilling into surrounding neighborhoods late Tuesday night. And they carried on into a fifth day Wednesday, with street battles occuring around the heavily fortified Interior Ministry. But the crisis in the post-Mubarak transition that has revealed itself in recent days could force all of the key players to change their political scripts. (See photos of the clash between protesters and police in Cairo.)

For protester Ekrami Abdel Azim, the matter is simple: The generals cannot be allowed to remain in power. "The military is always killing people and claiming that it's the invisible fingers who are doing this," he said. Earlier this month, he watched a fellow demonstrator shot alongside him as the military swept in to crush a protest in Damietta against poisonous pollutants issuing from the Agrium fertilizer plant. For others braving the Square on Tuesday, the turning point came when the military massacred 27 people, mostly Christian protesters, outside the state TV building on October 9, or when soldiers had forcefully cleared Tahrir during protests in July. "The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces is deceptive," Azim warns. "The clues that they want to stay in power is there in all these injuries, in the supra-constitutional principles, and in the delay of the presidential election until 2013."

Tantawi had, of course, pledged on Tuesday to bring that election date forward and insisted that "We don't want to stay in power, we never wanted to." He also maintained that the military had never shot any Egyptians. But the crowd was no longer buying it. A banner in the square mimicked the text that Egyptians see on the screens of their mobile phones when their prepaid air time expires: "I'm sorry Field Marshall, your credit has ended." (See why confusion is marring Egypt's impending vote.)

Tantawi, the 76-year-old who served as President Hosni Mubarak's defense minister, has ruled Egypt as the head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces since the generals eased the strongman into retirement last February. Yet Tuesday marked the first time he'd addressed the citizenry, and he did so in circumstances that might have been familiar to his old boss ? he was the target of the fury of tens of thousands of Egyptians on the street to demand an immediate transfer of power.

The derision with which the SCAF chief's words were greeted on the Square was reminiscent of the desperate final days of Mubarak, when the strongman and other officials made repeated TV appearances making new offers, as if bargaining with the crowds. But despite the breadth of the protest ? rich young women sporting expensive sunglasses wandered through the throng along with poor men in tattered gallabiyas, veiled women, children, and Islamist activists ? it may be early yet to predict a precipitous collapse of the junta. Much depends on whether those in Tahrir Square, and on the streets of Alexandria and other cities, are able to win support for a new revolutionary confrontation from the vast majority of Egyptians who remain passive observers sidelines.

There's a bitterness and frustration, almost an air of desperation in the air now: The demonstrators don't trust the generals, and they vow not to be duped again into accepting anything less than SCAF stepping down and returning to barracks, making way for a civilian "government of national salvation." The violence unleashed by the security forces over the weekend has hardened their resolve to hold the Square until they have won Tantawi's resignation.

Autocratic power and its trappings, however, have been the exclusive preserve of Egypt's military for the past six decades: Mubarak, and Anwar Sadat and Gamal Abdel Nasser before him, were all military men, who owed their presidencies to their status in the armed forces. The latest round of clashes were triggered, in fact, when SCAF last Thursday announced "supra-constitutional principles" to which those elected to write a new constitution would have to adhere, and which not only kept the military exempt from civilian oversight and command, but also reserved for its leaders a role of "guardianship" over the democratic political process.

Ceding power to civilians would certainly be a counter-intuitive step for a military that has been the source of political power in Egypt since the coup of 1952, and the performance of the SCAF since assuming power ? maintaining draconian emergency laws, detaining thousands of democratic activists and subjecting many to arbitrary military justice, and setting the rules and timetable for a political transition by diktat ? has hardly generated optimism over its intent. (Watch Egyptian protesters returning to Tahrir Square.)

Tantawi's speech may have been an opening bid, a way to speed up the presidential election, but Egypt in military hands for most of the next year. He did concede that if it was the will of the people, established through a referendum, that the military step down immediately, it would do so. But, of course, no such referendum is scheduled, and the generals may be counting on the consent of the Muslim Brotherhood, whose priority is going ahead with the parliamentary elections scheduled to begin next week, and in which its Freedom and Justice Party is expected to garner the largest share of the vote. Clearly, it's not going to be enough to bring the latest crisis to a close.

As analyst Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institution told the New York Times, "The gap between the military and the protesters is so large now as to be almost impossible to close... The maximum of what the military can offer doesn't meet the minimum of what the protesters are demanding." That, notes Cairo-based blogger Issandr al-Amrani leaves just two scenarios for ending the standoff: "Massive force by the police and army, which seems unlikely for now, or a much grander gesture than what Tantawi is offering tonight, one with a convincing vision for Egypt's future."

While the military appears to be scrambling for new measures of appeasement ? it reportedly tried to get liberal favorite Dr. Mohammed ElBaradei to accept the role of interim Prime Minister on Tuesday, but the Nobel laureate former IAEA chief was reportedly reluctant to take the job without first establishing its independence from military diktat, and some form of popular mandate ? the opposition doesn't necessarily have a unified position of its own. The lack of cohesion was evident Tuesday on the Square: Rich kids tweeted sarcastically about the Islamists operating alongside them at the protesters' field hospitals; some Christians still insist that the Muslim Brotherhood is in cahoots with the military, even though many of them were active in Tuesday's demonstration, despite the reluctance of their leadership to endorse a new wave of protest lest they jeopardize next week's election.

Still, there was teamwork. Corridors opened up in the sea of bodies to allow ambulances through; human chains formed to protect field hospitals and the faithful bowed in prayer. Strangers sprayed one another's scarves with an alkaline solution to mitigate the suffocating sting of the tear gas. So enormous were the piles of donated medical supplies that they gave the impression that volunteer medics were expecting the standoff to last for weeks. (See TIME's exclusive pictures of the turmoil in Egypt.)

It may well do, with many in the Square expecting a more torrid test than they faced in ousting Mubarak in February. The crisis provoked by the authorities' handling of last weekend's protests has forced all of the key stakeholders out of their political comfort zones: The military, the Muslim Brotherhood and its various factions, and other opposition groups in the protest action may be forced, in the coming days, to recalibrate their tactics. After all, Friday is coming, and with it comes prospect of yet another fateful day of prayer in Tahrir Square.

With reporting by Abigail Hauslohner / Cairo

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Pandora FQ3 Earnings DoneDespite yesterday's FQ3 earnings statement?indicating that Pandora beat Wall Street projections and that it has abundant long-term growth opportunities,?Pandora?s stock price fell 11.3% since yesterday to $10.51.?This is likely because?Pandora lowered its FQ4 guidance to a loss ($0.03) in earnings per share, worse than its $0.02 EPS for last quarter and Wall Street's ($0.02) guidance for next quarter. Investors see Pandora as a momentum story, betting on it gradually but steadily growing towards?significant?profitability.?The slightly grim guidance, due to increased investments which will go towards hiring more sales people, may have spooked some investors with a distaste for any signs of slowing momentum.

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Martinez wins the 'Dancing' mirrorball (omg!)

In this image released by ABC-TV, war veteran and actor J.R. Martinez, right, and his partner Karina Smirnoff hold their award after they were crowned champions of the celebrity dance competition series, "Dancing with the Stars," Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/ABC-TV, Adam Taylor)

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? Actor J. R. Martinez boogied past Rob Kardashian Tuesday to win the 13th edition of ABC's hit competition "Dancing With the Stars."

Martinez hoisted the mirrorball trophy with his professional partner, Karina Smirnoff.

Host Tom Bergeron called the Iraq war veteran an inspiration to the audience.

The all-male finale was set up halfway through the final show when talk show host Ricki Lake was voted off, finishing third. Judges' scores combined with viewer votes determined the winner.

Judges didn't provide much extra guidance during the final competition, a samba that the dancers had to perform with little preparation time. The three judges gave both teams perfect 30 scores for their final dances.

"For one of you, that was your victory dance, but I think both of you are winners," judge Carrie Ann Inaba said. "That was a great way to end this season."

Martinez came into Tuesday's episode tied with Lake for second place. He reprised his jive routine from week two, and though he made a few mistakes, judge Len Goodman said, "You've got such a sparkling personality, you just light up this room."

With his positive attitude and apparently natural dance skill, Martinez scored high with both judges and fans all season. A motivational speaker who embodies his message, the 28-year-old thanked his partner and his fans when he was announced as the winner.

Martinez was serving in Iraq in 2003 when the U.S. Army vehicle he was driving hit a land mine. He suffered severe burns over 40 percent of his body and endured dozens of operations during his nearly three-year recovery. That was when he began sharing his experiences and optimistic outlook with other burn patients. He answered an open casting call in 2008 and won a role on the long-running and now-retired ABC soap opera "All My Children."

The "Dancing" victory brings Smirnoff her first mirrorball in 10 seasons. Though she said Monday of Martinez, "He is my mirrorball trophy," she also acknowledged that they really wanted to win, saying it would be "a perfect ending to a perfect story."

Tuesday's two-hour finale also included music from Lady Antebellum and appearances by this season's former contestants: TV personalities Nancy Grace and Carson Kressley, reality star Kristin Cavallari, actors David Arquette and Elisabetta Canalis, singer Chynna Phillips, activist Chaz Bono, basketball player Metta World Peace and soccer star Hope Solo.

Kressley performed a cheeky routine to Madonna's "Vogue" that included him taking a spin with one male dancer and being dipped by another. The openly gay contestant, paired with pro dancer Ana Trebunskaya, was a fan favorite this season and has returned several times since he was eliminated from the competition to consult on fashion and bring his sense of silliness to the show.

Phillips took advantage of a second opportunity to try a "Mission Impossible" routine that she had muffed the first time around, resulting in her elimination.

After being voted off partway through Tuesday's show, Lake said she loved every minute of her experience.

"I've done something I really didn't think I could do," said the talk show host, who lost a significant amount of weight during the competition. "For someone who's a middle aged mom, I hope I made my children proud, my fianc? and my family."

Martinez, Kardashian and Lake were whisked away to New York after the show Tuesday to make an appearance on Wednesday's "Good Morning America."

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In this image released by ABC-TV, war veteran and actor J.R. Martinez, right, and his partner Karina Smirnoff hold their awards after they were crowned champions of the celebrity dance competition series, "Dancing with the Stars," Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/ABC-TV, Adam Taylor)

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