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 For the impatient: 
 http://hector-client.github.com/hector/build/html/index.html
 
-All Hector artificats are deployed to Maven Central. If you use maven for your build system, you need only include the hector-core dependency and all related dependencies will be managed automatically. 
+All Hector artifacts are deployed to Maven Central. If you use maven for your build system, you need only include the hector-core dependency and all related dependencies will be managed automatically. 
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 Hector is a high level Java client for Apache Cassandra.