Speed-up of quantity initialisation
Change try/except to if statement that checks for more specific problem
Further speedup: no local import(!), return whenever ready
Make Quantity initialisation of Quantity even faster
Add entry to CHANGES.rst
io.ascii LaTeX table writer: add tablealign to latexdict

fixes #1777
update CHANGES.rst
Fix a problem that caused MaskedColumn.__getitem__ to not preserve column metadata. This required adding a workaround for a bug in Numpy which causes MaskedArray.__getitem__ to not call __array_finalize__. Fixes #1471.
Also fix behavior for MaskedColumn with ``take`` and added regression test
Added docstring for MaskedColumn.take based on numpy.ndarray.take
Added tests for scalar take and also added tests for using np.take as a function
Ensure arguments to take get passed through
Take with single value only works with Numpy 1.8.0 and above.
Updated default version of Numpy (1.8.0) and Scipy (0.13.1) for Travis
Skip doctest in fitting.rst since the output for the third and fourth rows is very small and non-deterministic
Add test case to for copy=True / False
Remove extraneous builds
Merge pull request #1855 from mdboom/testing/ignore-endianness

Ignore the endianess markers in Numpy dtype strings
Merge pull request #1858 from astrofrog/add-numpy1.8-to-travis

Add Numpy 1.8.0 to Travis
Merge pull request #1830 from astrofrog/issue-1830

Modeling test failure on MacOS X