improve casting to be more consistent with interfaces.
first pass at upgrade steps
slight changes to use Cluster class and definitions already defined to
check for new nodes.  Originally causing a problem when Cassandra
security it turned on.
fixed merge conflict on NDS, commented out test case on CqlQueryTest pending some investigation on count semantics
udpated to c rc2
merge from HEAD
updated poms to new version
changed exception in CqlQuery to match new return type from cassandra; updated thrift version string in CassandraClusterTest
Merge branch 'master' into 1.0-upgrade
Close connection on invalida queries and cass errors
Add entry in CHANGELOG

Conflicts:

	CHANGELOG
remove unused syntax for count queries
Merge branch '1.0-upgrade' of github.com:rantav/hector into 1.0-upgrade
Merge branch 'master' into 1.0-upgrade
fix for #281 - holding reference to bad keyspace. Thanks to yangyangyyy for the patch.
update jamm and spring versions.  update cassandra staging repository URL.  leave cassandra version at 1.0.0-rc2
clean up pom and use hector/pom.xml definitions.  update to work with hector 1.0 and cassandra 1.0.0
Merge branch '1.0-upgrade' of github.com:rantav/hector into 1.0-upgrade
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:rantav/hector into 1.0-upgrade
thought i removed the commented out config - now it is