BF: reading stata files - unpack read value describing stored byte order

Otherwise comparison would always result in "low endian"
Merge pull request #7272 from neurodebian/master

BF: reading stata files - unpack read value describing stored byte order
ENH: check for __array__ instead of ndarray subclasses when creating an Index

This allows custom ndarray-like objects which aren't actual ndarrays
to be smoothly cast to a pandas.Index:
https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/5460#issuecomment-44474502
DOC/RLS: remove duplicate content in release.rst and move remaining to whatsnew
Merge pull request #7270 from shoyer/use-__array__

ENH: check for __array__ instead of ndarray subclasses when creating an Index
Merge pull request #7275 from jorisvandenbossche/release-notes

DOC/RLS: remove duplicate content in release.rst and move remaining to whatsnew
DOC: add thanks list to release.rst
RLS: 0.14.0 final
DOC: add whatsnew / release for 0.14.1
BUG: Index.min and max doesnt handle nan and NaT properly
BUG: TimeGrouper doesnt exclude the column specified by key
Merge pull request #7279 from sinhrks/minmax

BUG: Index.min and max doesnt handle nan and NaT properly
Merge branch 'resampleex' of https://github.com/sinhrks/pandas into sinhrks-resampleex

Conflicts:
	doc/source/v0.14.1.txt
DOC: windows binaries are built against numpy 1.8.1
BUG: bar plot can now handle bottom and left kw
BUG: hist raises TypeError when df contains non numeric column
TST: tests for Index.insert to validate neg/pos indexers (GH7256)
TST: Use ISO8601 format for DTI partial slicing
Merge pull request #7290 from sinhrks/gh7289

TST: Use ISO8601 format for DTI partial slicing
BUG: tzinfo lost when concatenating multiindex arrays