In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

Input: Consider Input: Washington (CNN) -- The District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Rhode Island are all to receive a portion of the $3.4 billion remaining in the "Race to the Top" fund for education in those states. "We had many more competitive applications than money to fund them in this round," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Tuesday. "Race to the Top" is an Obama administration initiative to award money to states that show that they have a plan for school reforms in four main areas: turning around low performing schools, adopting college and career ready standards, effective teachers and principals, and using data systems to support student achievement.Nine states plus the District of Columbia are winnersEach will receive a portion of $3.4 billionWinners had to show they have plans for school reforms 
 Question:Those finalists all sent representatives to _ in August to present their case to a group of peer reviewers.

Output: Washington


Input: Consider Input: With her fashionable sunglasses, floral pants and striking green top, convicted killer Heather Mack stepped out from her Bali prison today looking like an everyday tourist. And the 'body in a suitcase' killer, who was taking her baby daughter to hospital because she has a sixth finger, blasted the FBI as she left her jail cell. She accused them of lying after they charged the cousin of her convicted boyfriend with conspiracy to murder her mother, whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase in a Bali taxi last year. As she kissed her seven-month-old baby Stella for our camera, the 21-year-old Chicago woman responded without hesitation when asked about the charge levelled against Robert Bibbs, who has been accused of conspiring with Miss Mack’s boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, in the suitcase murder.Mack, serving 10 years for helping kill her mother, spoke outside Bali jailShe accused FBI of lying after her boyfriend's cousin was charged for conspiracy over murder of her mother, who was stuffed in suitcaseMack suggested she would keep baby daughter in jail until she turns twoShe left Bali jail to take baby Stella to hospital to examine her sixth finger 
 Question:Already the centre of attention as she swaggered along, Miss Mack wasn’t going to miss out on sharing her baby’s fun and gave _ a big kiss as the guard gave the child a playful jiggle in his arms.

Output: Stella


Input: Consider Input: (CNN) A Mississippi man was sentenced to 49 years in prison Monday and fined $20,000 for killing his ex-girlfriend because she was transgender, the US Justice Department said. Joshua Vallum, 29, of Lucedale is the first person prosecuted for a federal hate crime in which the victim was targeted for being transgender, the Justice Department said in a news release. Vallum knew Mercedes Williamson was a transgender teenage girl when they began dating, but kept her gender identity secret, prosecutors said. They broke up in 2014 but Vallum decided to kill her in May 2015 because a friend had discovered she was transgender, the Justice Department said.Joshua Vallum pleaded guilty to killing his ex-girlfriendJustice Department: He killed because she was transgender 
 Question:He would not have killed _ if she was not transgender, he said.


Output: Mercedes Williamson


