Merge pull request #179 from sagarl/1.1.a

Updating us-east end point and fixing the unit tests. LGTM, hope the commit squashes things into happiness.
Merge pull request #186 from sagarl/1.1.a

Checking if cassandra is running, before making nodetool connect call.
Merge pull request #187 from sagarl/1.1.a

Updating Max num of retries in BoundedExponentialRetryCallable
ignore maven dirs
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changing org name for libthrift
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Eliminating the fixed caching of seeds; cache is never updated. Any updates to seeds (as discocvered by priam) won't be reflected with the cache in the way.
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Merge pull request #201 from jasobrown/1.1.a

Eliminating the fixed caching of seeds in NFSeedProvider
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Enabling Cassandra to start manually