The Kafka ConsumerIterator hangs when it has no values and you ask for iterator.hasNext().  So I changed our nextWorkBatch method, adding a linger variable that tells how long to wait before returning whatever Sequence has been obtained up to that point.  Also changed ActorsApp from a class to an Object so that we can run it. At this point we're able to persist JSON data fromKafka to Cassandra, but we need to persist Google Protocol Buffers.
Adding support for basic logging
Now writing xmq.Messages.  Also we can now create streams by filter or by topic.
Fixed typo
Verified that .* regexp still works
Resolved conflicts in Actors.scala
Adding a simple producer for testing
Removing UTF-8 encoding from test producer
Removed console driver and support for connector for actor