IN PROGRESS: seperated utilites and some of the app functions into MVC.  The app is NOT functional right yet
moved UTILS and View SuperClass to separate files AND changed Controller to handle events from views to initiate an async JSONP call
changed the callback on the searchAPI function in the Controller to call a proper success handler
created ResultsCountView as a subClass of View and added event listeners to update the display
created ResultsListView as a subClass of View and added event listeners to display model data as a list
created ResultsPaginationContorlsView as a subClass and attached listener to enable pagination based on model data
created a Model class to serialize the data format from the async JSON calls
seperated classes into in multiple files for better organization
more cleanup--commentout console logs
added a lot of notes marking my conversion progress
removing uneeded files
quick update to account for this MVC re-factor