standardized mint display, moved code out to files

also created build_article script
removed spaces
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into code_updates
moved code
created code text files
added ipython notebook to check code and figures
Merge pull request #129 from aringlis/master

Small fix for issue #117.
correction to database wording to address #114
Merge pull request #126 from ehsteve/code_updates

Code block Update
Merge pull request #130 from aringlis/database_wording

Correction to database wording to address #114