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    copied!<pre><code>"Lives in &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Salt-Lake-City-Utah/106057819434480" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=106057819434480"&gt;Salt Lake City, Utah&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="fbProfileBylineFragment"&gt;&lt;span class="fbProfileBylineIconContainer"&gt;&lt;i class="mrs fbProfileBylineIcon img sp_19lyo5 sx_3060a4"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="fbProfileBylineLabel"&gt;In a Relationship&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="fbProfileBylineFragment"&gt;&lt;span class="fbProfileBylineIconContainer"&gt;&lt;i class="mrs fbProfileBylineIcon img sp_19lyo5 sx_02e908"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="fbProfileBylineLabel"&gt;From &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ho-Chi-Minh-City-Vietnam/108458769184495" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=108458769184495"&gt;Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a class="title" href="http://www.facebook.com/thdnguyen/info" aria-label="About Thang Duc Nguyen"&gt;&lt;span class="text"&gt;About&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="friends tile firstTab" id="pagelet_timeline_friends_nav_top"&gt;&lt;div id="pagelet_timeline_friends_nav_top" data-referrer="pagelet_timeline_friends_nav_top_tc"&gt;&lt;div class="modify" id="u_0_u"&gt;&lt;a class="tab" href="http://www.facebook.com/thdnguyen/friends?ft_ref=mni"&gt;&lt;div class="detail"&gt;&lt;img class="friend hovercard_trigger img" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-ash4/372716_1823442806_2006030279_q.jpg" alt="Thanh Tu" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=1823442806" data-gt="&amp;#123;&amp;quot;coeff2_registry_key&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0171&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;coeff2_info&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;AavbyaRCgBvdhZfDCJWU-1D0XS9C9xYK9mP-XAjVkbJZISJXe7vormiJvifh83A0MaQ&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;coeff2_action&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;7&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;coeff2_pv_signature&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;900209238&amp;quot;&amp;#125;" tabindex="-1" id="u_0_v" /&gt;&lt;img class="friend hovercard_trigger img" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-prn1/157747_1207242302_43629620_q.jpg" alt="Khuong Ly" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=1207242302" data-gt="&amp;#123;&amp;quot;coeff2_registry_key&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0171&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;coeff2_info&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;AavPGDyDTok7B4j0_HSLcSkhQ3kZ0ZJp6DuZ66N3ieCvIbwAElfVzNWwcDWmaCtMZxk&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;coeff2_action&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;7&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;coeff2_pv_signature&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;900209238&amp;quot;&amp;#125;" tabindex="-1" id="u_0_w" /&gt;&lt;img class="friend hovercard_trigger img" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-ash4/274290_1289768677_1335638163_q.jpg" alt="Jimmy Nguyen" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=1289768677" data-gt="&amp;#123;&amp;quot;coeff2_registry_key&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0171&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;coeff2_info&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;AavimNr_nNQOjE_GUv9rK9Y53Wb0AINs2esyyYHwWkYlCUR9k4s3bjv2zuX9ZC_zl0Y&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;coeff2_action&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;7&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;coeff2_pv_signature&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;900209238&amp;quot;&amp;#125;" tabindex="-1" id="u_0_x" /&gt;&lt;img class="friend hovercard_trigger img" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-ash4/371515_1595704919_1332516967_q.jpg" alt="Phan Huu Duong" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=1595704919" data-gt="&amp;#123;&amp;quot;coeff2_registry_key&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0171&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;coeff2_info&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;AauiC-fIYS2uiXgKMG1caBF5Oa7EQ5G8fw1cj_BytuODRnvmIXrcupg5R_oaUapQrwc&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;coeff2_action&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;7&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;coeff2_pv_signature&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;900209238&amp;quot;&amp;#125;" tabindex="-1" id="u_0_y" /&gt;&lt;img class="friend hovercard_trigger img" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-prn1/27350_579556704_1248743264_q.jpg" alt="Shinbi Han" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=579556704" data-gt="&amp;#123;&amp;quot;coeff2_registry_key&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0171&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;coeff2_info&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;AavEMYXuvUDOiYAw0rF9CRUi99YwRuu2lfGGx7fTwpCNfOSr4ZfXWNSAb94LtYaL52U&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;coeff2_action&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;7&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;coeff2_pv_signature&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;900209238&amp;quot;&amp;#125;" tabindex="-1" id="u_0_z" /&gt;&lt;img class="friend hovercard_trigger img" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc6/187628_536415512_687099069_q.jpg" alt="Ph&amp;#x1b0;&amp;#x1a1;ng Dung" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=536415512" data-gt="&amp;#123;&amp;quot;coeff2_registry_key&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;0171&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;coeff2_info&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;AattmnwhiMdkaTVRwQWbQOW6LgoyyJLT0YiOtB8mJMN2ClaSo0eRUG65DVpL0aIdhs0&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;coeff2_action&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;7&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;coeff2_pv_signature&amp;quot;:&amp;quot;900209238&amp;quot;&amp;#125;" tabindex="-1" id="u_0_10" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="frame"&gt;&lt;div class="mat"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="fbTimelineRibbon"&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt;56 Mutual&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="title"&gt;&lt;span class="icon"&gt;&lt;i class="img sp_19lyo5 sx_9f0f9c"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="text"&gt;Friends&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="count"&gt;343&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="photos tile " id="pagelet_timeline_photos_nav_top"&gt;&lt;div id="pagelet_timeline_photos_nav_top" data-referrer="pagelet_timeline_photos_nav_top_tc"&gt;&lt;div class="modify" id="u_0_17"&gt;&lt;a class="tab" href="http://www.facebook.com/thdnguyen/photos"&gt;&lt;div class="detail"&gt;&lt;i style="background-image: url(&amp;#039;http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/312328_540065199344675_1438624962_a.jpg&amp;#039;);background-position: 10% 79%;" class="photo"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="frame"&gt;&lt;div class="mat"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="title"&gt;&lt;span class="icon"&gt;&lt;i class="img sp_4mjn73 sx_636b00"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="text"&gt;Photos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="count"&gt;217&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="map tile " id="pagelet_timeline_map_nav_top"&gt;&lt;div id="pagelet_timeline_map_nav_top" data-referrer="pagelet_timeline_map_nav_top_tc"&gt;&lt;div class="modify" id="u_0_15"&gt;&lt;a class="tab" href="http://www.facebook.com/thdnguyen/map"&gt;&lt;div class="detail"&gt;&lt;img class="img" src="http://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=AQAC3nvFphWDJjkh&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Ffb.ecn.api.tiles.virtualearth.net%2Fapi%2FGetMap.ashx%3Fb%3Dr%252Cmkt.en-US%252Cstl.fb%26key%3DAqSHdMNkhSvgWwMhbqyiqgW1IhMNeV56Gb0WkfgEDm6jSsfX9gDGmlOUEt3i44Jk%26td%3DD1%26h%3D74%26w%3D111%26ppl%3D54%252C%252C40.2487%252C-111.6467%26z%3D8&amp;amp;jq=100" alt="" width="111" height="74" /&gt;&lt;div class="mapSubtitle"&gt;BYU Wilkinson Center&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="frame"&gt;&lt;div class="mat"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="title"&gt;&lt;span class="icon"&gt;&lt;i class="img sp_6b0izw sx_dbd31f"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="text"&gt;Map&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="count"&gt;26&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="favorites tile " id="pagelet_timeline_favorites_nav_top"&gt;&lt;div id="pagelet_timeline_favorites_nav_top" data-referrer="pagelet_timeline_favorites_nav_top_tc"&gt;&lt;div class="modify" id="u_0_14"&gt;&lt;a class="tab" href="http://www.facebook.com/thdnguyen/favorites"&gt;&lt;div class="detail"&gt;&lt;div class="first panel"&gt;&lt;img class="liked img" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc6/203541_422548671139516_791692913_s.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="panel"&gt;&lt;img class="liked img" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc6/203522_363819460365598_301463621_s.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="frame"&gt;&lt;div class="mat"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="title"&gt;&lt;span class="icon"&gt;&lt;i class="img sp_8y8k5s sx_d48dae"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="text"&gt;Likes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="count"&gt;44&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="followers tile " id="pagelet_timeline_followers_nav_top"&gt;&lt;div id="pagelet_timeline_followers_nav_top" data-referrer="pagelet_timeline_followers_nav_top_tc"&gt;&lt;div class="modify" id="u_0_p"&gt;&lt;a class="tab" href="http://www.facebook.com/thdnguyen/followers"&gt;&lt;div class="detail"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;table class="uiGrid statsContainer" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="vMid hCent stats"&gt;&lt;span class="_wj fwb"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="frame"&gt;&lt;div class="mat"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="title"&gt;&lt;span class="icon"&gt;&lt;i class="img sp_19lyo5 sx_910af8"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="text"&gt;Followers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="following tile " id="pagelet_timeline_following_nav_top"&gt;&lt;div id="pagelet_timeline_following_nav_top" data-referrer="pagelet_timeline_following_nav_top_tc"&gt;&lt;i id="u_0_11"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="events tile " id="pagelet_timeline_events_nav_top"&gt;&lt;div id="pagelet_timeline_events_nav_top" data-referrer="pagelet_timeline_events_nav_top_tc"&gt;&lt;div class="modify" id="u_0_16"&gt;&lt;a class="tab" href="http://www.facebook.com/thdnguyen/events"&gt;&lt;div class="detail"&gt;&lt;i style="background-image: url(&amp;#039;http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc6/276528_475960892426464_856733486_n.jpg&amp;#039;)" class="event"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="frame"&gt;&lt;div class="mat"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="title"&gt;&lt;span class="icon"&gt;&lt;img class="img" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/rsrc.php/v2/yS/r/UcZE_y8-JDf.png" alt="" width="15" height="16" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="text"&gt;Events&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="notes tile " id="pagelet_timeline_notes_nav_top"&gt;&lt;div id="pagelet_timeline_notes_nav_top" data-referrer="pagelet_timeline_notes_nav_top_tc"&gt;&lt;div class="modify" id="u_0_13"&gt;&lt;a class="tab" href="http://www.facebook.com/thdnguyen/notes"&gt;&lt;div class="detail"&gt;&lt;div class="note"&gt;&lt;div class="content"&gt;&lt;div class="name"&gt;8 months&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span&gt; I should start this boring thing when the college is over on May 16 that&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="frame"&gt;&lt;div class="mat"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="title"&gt;&lt;span class="icon"&gt;&lt;i class="img sp_4mjn73 sx_f82ad6"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="text"&gt;Notes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="count"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="og_ns_music tile " id="pagelet_timeline_og_nav_og_ns_music_top"&gt;&lt;div id="pagelet_timeline_og_nav_og_ns_music_top" data-referrer="pagelet_timeline_og_nav_og_ns_music_top_tc"&gt;&lt;div class="modify" id="u_0_12"&gt;&lt;a class="tab" href="http://www.facebook.com/thdnguyen/music"&gt;&lt;div class="detail"&gt;&lt;div class="uiScaledImageContainer photo"&gt;&lt;img class="scaledImageFitWidth img" src="http://external.ak.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=AQD8v7DoEhwQwP1p&amp;amp;w=200&amp;amp;h=200&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fo.scdn.co%2Funbranded%2Fdd77ec2b2f2a51017d8ebe60413400bf193a8de2&amp;amp;crop" style="top:-17px;" alt="" width="109" height="109" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="frame"&gt;&lt;div class="mat"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="title"&gt;&lt;span class="icon"&gt;&lt;i class="img sp_4mjn73 sx_040c01"&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="text"&gt;Music&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="hidden_elem empty tile"&gt;&lt;div class="add"&gt;&lt;a class="tab" href="#"&gt;&lt;div class="detail"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="frame"&gt;&lt;div class="mat"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="title"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="hidden_elem empty tile"&gt;&lt;div class="add"&gt;&lt;a class="tab" href="#"&gt;&lt;div class="detail"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="frame"&gt;&lt;div class="mat"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="title"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="hidden_elem empty tile"&gt;&lt;div class="add"&gt;&lt;a class="tab" href="#"&gt;&lt;div class="detail"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="frame"&gt;&lt;div class="mat"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="title"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="hidden_elem empty tile"&gt;&lt;div class="add"&gt;&lt;a class="tab" href="#"&gt;&lt;div class="detail"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="frame"&gt;&lt;div class="mat"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="title"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="hidden_elem empty tile"&gt;&lt;div class="add"&gt;&lt;a class="tab" href="#"&gt;&lt;div class="detail"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="frame"&gt;&lt;div class="mat"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="title"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="hidden_elem empty tile"&gt;&lt;div class="add"&gt;&lt;a class="tab" href="#"&gt;&lt;div class="detail"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="frame"&gt;&lt;div class="mat"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="title"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="hidden_elem empty tile"&gt;&lt;div class="add"&gt;&lt;a class="tab" href="#"&gt;&lt;div class="detail"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="frame"&gt;&lt;div class="mat"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="title"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class="hidden_elem empty tile"&gt;&lt;div class="add"&gt;&lt;a class="tab" href="#"&gt;&lt;div class="detail"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="frame"&gt;&lt;div class="mat"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="title"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;a class="fbTimelineMoreButton seemore stat_elem fbTimelineMoreButtonZero" href="#" id="u_0_o"&gt;&lt;div class="detail frame"&gt;&lt;div class="mat"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="fbTimelineRibbon"&gt;&lt;div class="text"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="title"&gt;More&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;" </code></pre> <p>What I need is just <strong>Salt Lake City, Utah</strong> at near the beginning.</p> <p>I'm new to JavaScript regex so thanks a lot.</p>
 

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