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 * Install [Redis](http://redis.io) and run `redis-server`
 
 Version 2 of the OSRC comes with a daemon `osrcd` designed to be run once a day to update the
-stats. To initialize the database with the event stream starting at the beinning of 2013, run:
+stats. To initialize the database with the event stream starting at the beginning of 2013, run:
 
 ```
 ./osrcd --since 2013-01-01