add Base class for non Backbone inheritance
mark the todo handlebars item as done

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commit a017c7787bc8fca121d2db53ee1fb3e9c7aeb93e
Author: Erwin Mombay <berwin9@yahoo.com>
Date:   Sun Feb 24 22:15:35 2013 -0500

    mark the todo handlebars item as done