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+   <newsitem author="ztseguin" date="2016-10-18">
+      <p>Due to a planned power outage in the Mathematics &amp; Computer Building on Sat. Oct 22 from 7am to 11pm, Computer Science Club systems and services will be unavailable.</p>
+      <p>It is expected that our Open Source Software mirror (<a href="http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca">mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>) remain available during the outage. This is made possible with assistance from the Computer Science Computing Facility (CSCF).</p>
+   </newsitem>
+
    <newsitem author="ztseguin" date="2016-09-19">
      <p>Here are the results from this term's elections:</p>
       <ul>