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// order|date|event name|description|website link, either leave blank, or put a zero. <<--------sample format
// order is the date, must be year/month/day
// for the website link, if it is local, just write the local path
//     example of local path:  images/picture.jpg
// if it is external, write the full path
//     example of external path:  http://www.google.com

//******************************************edit here only, sample of format above******************************


"2005/04/21|Thursday, April 21, 2005|IEEE’s Second General Meeting of Spring 2005|IEEE Members running for an IEEE board position for the 2005 – 2006 academic school year presented a speech and mentioned their skills that would qualify them for an IEEE board position.  The majority of the candidates demonstrated commitment and vast amounts of energy to maintain IEEE with a good reputation|secondgenmeetingspring05",

"2005/04/07|Thursday, April 7, 2005|IEEE’s First General Meeting of Spring 2005|During this meeting, a technical paper was presented.  Candidate was Hae Yeol Min, which later obtained second place when he presented at the Southern Area of IEEE Region 6 meeting|firstgenmeetingspring05",

"2005/02/23|Wednesday, February 23, 2005|ECST Week|IEEE hosted the Unsinkable Paper Boat Competition during engineering week|unsinkable_boat",

"2005/02/25|Friday, February 25, 2005|ECST Banquet|ECST Banquet at the Golden Eagle Ballroom where Dr. Tabrizi received the Professor of the Year award.|awards05.html",

"2005/02/05|Saturday, February 5, 2005|Beach Clean Up for Winter 2005|IEEE’s 2nd Beach Clean-Up. It was a gloomy day with temperatures in the mid-60's.  We have to give a special recognition to John Wong and his 2 sons.  Even though the day was cold and breezy, that didn't stop them from picking up 5 bags of trash.  Thanks to their time and generosity, the beach got to be much cleaner.  Instead of our traditional volleyball games, and due to increasing demand, we had a dodge ball game.  Ignacio Sanchez proved to be a worthy opponent with his finishing move the 'Fire Throw'.  But, Lister Yu proved to be the better athlete being able to dodge each of Ignacio's attack|beachclnupW05.html",

"2005/02/03|Thursday, February 3, 2005|Third General Meeting of Winter 2005|Our guest speaker for today was Henry Almengor from Raytheon, a Systems Engineer.  Henry’s topic was 'How to land a successful engineering career.'  He also explained his experience as he entered the working field|thirdgen05.html",

"2005/02/03|Thursday, February 3, 2005|IEEE participated in the 2005 Homecoming Parade|The Homecoming Parade at CSULA in the main walkway was a success. Not because IEEE received first place, but because IEEE participated in the parade and in the banner contest|homecommingparade.html",

"2005/02/03|Thursday, February 3, 2005|IEEE’s Second General Meeting of Winter 2005|Today’s general meeting was hosted by Scott Smith from Southern California Edison. Nathan Nikotan gave an update on the Micro-Mouse|secondgenmeeting.html",

"2005/01/20|Thursday, January 20, 2005|First General Meeting of Winter 2005|IEEE’s first General Meeting for the Winter quarter of 2005. Scheduled guest speaker was Dimitri Kepchemf from Raytheon-Quality Assurance Engineer. Unfortunately, the guest speaker never arrived to the general meeting. Giveaways included 5 Blockbuster Gift Certificates and a few new redesigned IEEE T-Shirts|firstgen05.html",

"2004/11/11|Thursday, November 11, 2004|Third General Meeting of Fall 2004|The third General Meeting for the Fall quarter of 2004, hosted by Matthew Soule from Northrop Grumman which holds a title as Technical Staff Member-Mechanism & Laser Control Electronics. He discussed his current project, Laser Defense. As a bonus, there were free AMC Movie Tickets and a gift certificate to Tony Romas|0",

"2004/11/06|Saturday, November 6, 2004|IEEE Beach Clean Up|IEEE had its 1st Beach Clean Up of the Fall quarter.  We had a great turnout.  New members of Tau Beta Pi joined us in cleaning the beach.  We had a presentation from Heal the Bay: informing us on what we could do to keep our beaches clean.  After all the cleaning, we concluded with lunch and friendly volleyball games.  Shawn Patterson was named MVP after he lead his team, Falcon Force, to 4 consecutive victories.  All in all, we picked up 17 bags of trash and helped our beaches stay clean|beachclnup04.html",

"2004/10/28|Thursday, October 28, 2004|IEEE’s Second General Meeting of Fall 2004|The second General Meeting of Fall 2004. JPL Presentation. Also, as a give away free movie tickets were given|secondgen04.html",

"2004/10/12|Tuesday, October 12, 2004|IEEE’s First General Meeting of Fall 2004|The first IEEE General Meeting of the Fall 2004 quarter. Our guest speaker for today was Charlie Vartanian from Southern California Edison.<br/><br/>The Micro-Mouse competition was mentioned and its purpose was to create a Micro-Mouse team that would participate in a future competition|firstgen04.html",

"2004/01/29|January 29, 2004|Second General Meeting of Winter 2004|IEEE of Cal State LA hosted Joseph Ng from Boeing|activities/2nd_gen_win04",

"2004/01/17|January 17, 2004|Beach Cleanup, Winter 2004|SWE and IEEE clean a beach and then have a picnic|activities/beachcleanup_win2004",

"2004/01/15|January 15, 2004|First General Meeting of Winter 2004|The first IEEE General Meeting of Winter 2004|activities/1st_genmeet_win04",

"2005/11/08|Tuesday, November 15, 2005|Third General Meeting of Fall 2005|IEEE will be having its 3rd General Meeting of the Fall Quarter.  It will take place on Tuesday, November 8th @ 12:00p.m. in room E&T A-331.  We have scheduled Frank Franco and Sonny Tribuillier from Northrop Grumman as our guest speakers.  They will be speaking about their jobs at Northrop and about the USC's masters program. We hope to see you there! And remember free pizza and drinks will be provided after the meeting.|0",

"2006/01/17|Tuesday, January 17, 2006|First General Meeting of Winter 2006|We have scheduled Sheridan Mascarenhas from Southern California Edison as our guest speaker. He will be speaking Automation, a little known field in power engineering. BRING YOUR RESUMES because SCE has a couple of positions for EE and a few ME interns. We will also be announcing he future activities we will be hosting this quarter.<br>We hope to see you there! And remember free pizza and drinks will be provided after the meeting. Hope to see you there!|0",

"2006/02/07|Tuesday, February 7, 2006|Second General Meeting of Winter 2006|It will take place @ 12:00 p.m.in room E&T C-154. We have scheduled Cesar Gonzalez from the Career Center as our guest speaker. He will be speaking about Resume Development for the upcoming ECST Career Fair.|0",

"2006/02/28|Tuesday, February 28, 2006|Third General Meeting of Winter 2006|Mr. Frank Flores of Northrop Grumman will be our guest speaker.  He is the president of Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems. We will be accepting NOMINATIONS for the new board for 2006-2007. There will be a T-SHIRT RAFFLE. Remember, FREE DRINKS AND PIZZA! The meeting is at 12:00p.m. in room E&T C-154.|0",

"2006/04/11|Tuesday, April 11, 2006|First General Meeting of Spring 2006|<!--<font color=red>*NEW*</font>---> IEEE will be having its 1st General Meeting on Tuesday, April 11 @ 12:00p.m. in room E&T C-154.  We are going to be VOTING for the future board members of IEEE 2006 - 2007. We will be hearing short 1 to 3 minute speeches from various students about their qualifications and goals for IEEE.<br/><br/>(Members running for board positions - please take note of this)<br/><br/> You must come to the meeting in order to vote. <br/>If you absolutely cannot attend the meeting, send us an email with your Name and IEEE Number to ieee@calstatela.edu to request an email ballot.<br/><br/>FREE PIZZA AND DRINKS will be provided after the meeting!We will also be giving away very cool IEEE T-shirts to lucky members who attend the meeting!|0",

"2006/05/02|Tuesday, May 2, 2006|Second General Meeting of Spring 2006 <!--<font color=red>*NEW*</font>-->|IEEE is having the 2nd general meeting of the spring quarter. We will be introducing the new IEEE board for the 2006-2007 school year. This will be a fairly short meeting and remember that there will be free pizza and drinks at the end of the meeting. The meeting will be held from 12 - 1 p.m. in <b>E&T-A220</b>|0",

"2006/05/06|Saturday, May 6, 2006|IEEE and SHESS BBQ Social <font color=red>*NEW*</font>|Also, IEEE and SHESS are hosting a BBQ social at Granada Park. There's going to be basketball, football, and free food as always. We will be serving hot dogs, hamburgers, chips, soda, etc. The BBQ is going to take place at Granada Park from 10 - 3 p.m. at. Granada Park is located right off the fremont exit of the 10 freeway, just 2 minutes from CSULA. More details will be provided in the future.|0"


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//*******************************DO not edit beyond this point************************
records=records.sort(dateSort);

numrecs=records.length; //how many records you have

//changing the <, and >, operators makes it either ascending, or descending
function dateSort(n1,n2) {
if (n1>n2) retVal=-1;
else if (n1<n2) retVal=1;
else retVal=0;
return retVal;
}
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