'The Voice': Jermaine Paul, Juliet Simms Make The Finals

Tony Lucca and Chris Mann also advance to the final four, while Lindsay Pavao, Katrina Parker, Erin Willett and Jamar Rogers exit.
By John Mitchell

Christina Aguilera and Lindsay Pavao
Photo: NBC

The results are in, and the four "Voice" contestants moving on to the finals have been decided.

Each artist was assigned two scores, both out of 100, following their performances on Monday night's show. The first came from their respective judge, while America's vote determined the other. The contestant from each team with the highest overall score advanced to the finals.

With no last-chance performances or saves left in the game, the night's singing came from last year's top four: Dia Frampton, Vicci Martinez, Beverly McClellan and winner Javier Colon.

Frampton, who repped Team Blake last year, was first to the stage, performing her new single "Don't Kick the Chair" with Kid Cudi. If anything, the fact that Frampton remains a viable enough recording artist to be performing the lead single from her upcoming record with a major artist like Cudi is a testament to the fact that whether they advance or not, these folks will be just fine.

After Frampton's performance came the night's first elimination. Aguilera evenly split her 100 points between her two contestants, Chris Mann and Lindsay Pavao, saying the two were so different and performed so strongly that she felt it right to let America decide who should advance.

America's vote was close, but ultimately it was Mann who prevailed, earning a total score of 104 to Pavao's 96, meaning America's vote went 54 to 46 in Mann's favor.

Season-one finalist Vicci Martinez performed her new single, "Come Along," and she got a little help from mentor Cee Lo.

Next up was Adam, who awarded Tony Lucca 60 points to Katrina Parker's 40, saying that while Parker is easily the contest's most improved contestant, he felt that, going into the finals, his connection with Lucca would better serve the rocker on his way to a potential victory.

America, it seems, felt the same. Lucca prevailed with an overall score of 108. Parker did snag an impressive 48 points from America's vote, though her total score of 92 fell short.

Team Christina's season one contestant, rocker Beverly McClellan, hit the stage next to perform "Money Changes Everything" with '80s pop icon Cyndi Lauper. McClellan, like Frampton, has a new album, Fear Nothing, on the way, reaffirming the sentiment Adam shared with his own team when they were on the chopping block: that all the contestants should take the exposure they've gained being on such a popular platform and use it as a launching pad, as both Frampton and McClellan (regardless of the fact that they lost) clearly have.

After last year's winner, Team Adam's Javier Colon, wowed the crowd with his new single "Drop in the Ocean," Team Blake hit the ring to find out who would stay and who would go.

Like Christina, Blake evenly divided his 100 points between Erin Willett and Jermaine Paul, saying he didn't want to be part of the decision-making process anymore. (At least he was honest.) However, America went big for Jermaine, giving the former Alicia Keys backup singer a whopping 77 points for a 123 total. By comparison, Willett totaled only 77.

The night's biggest surprise came when Team Cee Lo stepped forward for elimination. Cee Lo chose to go the Adam route, splitting his points 60/40 between rocker Juliet Simms (60), whose performance of "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" earned the most praise of the night from the panel, and Jamar Rogers (40).

With his compelling backstory and high-energy performances, Rogers has been a front-runner throughout the competition, but America clearly felt the same as the judges regarding Juliet. She snagged another 61 points from the public vote for a 121 total, besting Rogers' combined 79.

Moving on
» Chris Mann
» Tony Lucca
» Jermaine Paul
» Juliet Simms

Going home
» Lindsay Pavao
» Katrina Parker
» Erin Willett
» Jamar Rogers

Did the right contestants advance? Let us know in the comments below!

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Yuri Milner, Dave Morin, SV Angel, CrunchFund And More Hook Up Pair With $4.2M

For a social network that's, for lack of a better term, monogamous, social network for couples Pair has just raised funding from so many high-profile investors I'm having trouble picking who to include in this headline, and seriously running out of room. Investors in the company's recent $4.2 million seed round include Ashton Kutcher's A-Grade Ventures, Dave Morin, Paul Buchheit, Founder Collective, SV Angel, Lerer Ventures, Michael Birch, Sam Altman, CrunchFund, Tencent, Yuri Milner, Betaworks, Alexis Ohanian, Garry Tan, Harjeet Taggar, Gary Vaynerchuk, Brandee Barker, Brian Pokorny, Elad Gil, and Susan Wu. This sounds like it would be an amazing dinner party.

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English FA prepares to appoint Hodgson as coach

Roy Hodgson leaves Wembley Stadium, London after meeting with officials from the English Football Association Monday April 30, 2012. Roy Hodgson looks likely to become England coach in time for the European Championship _ and his main rival for the role says that's fine with him. (AP Photo/Steve Parsons/ PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT

Roy Hodgson leaves Wembley Stadium, London after meeting with officials from the English Football Association Monday April 30, 2012. Roy Hodgson looks likely to become England coach in time for the European Championship _ and his main rival for the role says that's fine with him. (AP Photo/Steve Parsons/ PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT

A document lies on the seat next to Roy Hodgson as he leaves Wembley Stadium, London after meeting with officials from the English Football Association Monday April 30, 2012. Roy Hodgson left Wembley Stadium on Monday poised to take charge of the England team, clutching a draft Euro 2012 itinerary after four hours of talks. (AP Photo/Steve Parsons/ PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT

FILE- West Bromwich Albion's manager Roy Hodgson before his team's English Premier League soccer match against Everton at The Hawthorns Stadium, West Bromwich, England, in this file photo dated Sunday Jan. 1, 2012. Roy Hodgson was unexpectedly approached about filling the England soccer coaching vacancy on Sunday April 29, 2012, with the well-traveled West Bromwich Albion manager opening talks about the job barely a month before the Euro 2012 begins, FA chairman David Bernstein said in a statement.(AP Photo/Jon Super, file)

FILE - West Bromwich Albion's soccer manager Roy Hodgson, ahead of their English Premier League soccer match against Manchester United at Old Trafford, Manchester, England, in this file photo dated Sunday, March 11, 2012. Roy Hodgson was unexpectedly approached about filling the England soccer coaching vacancy on Sunday April 29, 2012, with the well-traveled West Bromwich Albion manager opening talks about the job barely a month before the Euro 2012 begins, FA chairman David Bernstein said in a statement.(AP Photo/Scott Heppell, file)

LONDON (AP) ? The English Football Association has called a news conference for Tuesday afternoon and is expected to confirm Roy Hodgson as the new national team coach.

The West Bromwich Albion manager had what the FA described as a "positive" talks on Monday and returned to Wembley Stadium on Tuesday for further discussions.

The news conference will be at 11 a.m. EDT.

Associated Press

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BlackBerry 10 camera app gets 'timeline lens,' bad photographers get a do-over

Thorsten Heins is on stage at BlackBerry World 2012 and has just unveiled the new BB10 camera app. It is designed to capture those "magic moments" you miss by not hitting that shutter quick enough. If you miss it by a couple of seconds, you can cycle back through the camera's cache with a circular "timeline" lens and take your pick from the previous seconds worth of frames. It's eerily reminiscent of technology used in the Nikon 1 series, although the implication here is that as soon as the camera app is loaded, it'll start recording frames for your ease of use.

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Duran Duran to headline London Olympics concert

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Sensor tests fruit for ripeness, cuts waste

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To the chagrin of Dumpster divers everywhere, grocers may soon have sensors that accurately measure fruit ripeness, helping them reduce the amount of produce they throw away due spoilage on store shelves.

Grocery stores lose about 10 percent of their fruits and vegetables to spoilage every year, according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Even perfectly good food gets tossed out at closing time because it will be spoiled by morning.

While the tossed good stuff is a boon to late-night Dumpster divers, it hurts the bottom line of grocers and is likely factored into the price shoppers pay at the checkout stand.

The new sensors can detect tiny amounts of ethylene, a gas that promotes ripening in plants. In theory, they will let?grocers know far enough in advance to put soon-to-spoil food on sale, clearing it from the aisle without putting it in the trash bin.?

The technology is based on carbon nanotube sensors designed to detect explosives or chemical and biological warfare agents.

Timothy Swager, a chemistry professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his students modified these sensors by adding copper atoms to the tubes. This slows the flow of electrons over the tubes and, when ethylene is present, it binds to the copper atoms and slows the electrons even more.

?By measuring how much the electrons slow down ? a property also known as resistance ? the researchers can determine how much ethylene is present,? MIT explains in a news release.?

The ethylene sensors are also fitted with beads of polystyrene, which absorbs the tell-tale gas and concentrates it near the bottom of the tubes, which increases sensitivity.?

In lab tests, the team was able to detect concentrations of ethylene as low as 0.5 parts per million. Concentrations for fruit ripening are between 0.1 and 1 part per million.

Swager envisions the sensors attached to cardboard boxes of produce that communicate wirelessly via an RFID chip that is scanned with a handheld device. The sensor would cost about 25 cents and the chip another 75 cents.

Given that the technology has already proven successful at?detecting ripeness for high-value fruits such as avocados, which can cost more than $2 each in Seattle-area stores, the investment seems worthwhile.

For more information on the sensor, check out a paper describing it published in the journal Angwandte Chemie.?

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