Merge pull request #23 from tvaughan77/master

Adding a release_note about the checkstyle upgrade
Merge pull request #24 from tvaughan77/master

Centralizing com.mchange dependencies in opower-parent so we don't have ...
Disable default behavior of checking ../pom.xml for the parent POM.
Merge pull request #25 from alilucio/parent-relative-path-fix

Disable default behavior of checking ../pom.xml for the parent POM.