Applied patch https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/pub/CMS/TkAlignmentLegacyThoughts/hierarchyConstr.patch
Phases for elliptical, sagitta, and skew
Update to cosmic track splitting validation
fixed MixBoostEvtVtxGenerator.cc
Updated to replace 'condor' with 'remoteGlidein' and remove reference to 'useServer'
Update TTbar_GenLepAnalyzer.cc
Avoid segfault in playback mode if no files specified
Merge pull request #2606 from inugent/TopVallabelPatch_5_3_X

Update TTbar_GenLepAnalyzer.cc
Merge pull request #2593 from fatala22/pickev

Modified PhysicsTools/Utilities/scripts/edmPickEvents.py
Merge pull request #2546 from RylanC24/CMSSW_5_3_15_boostFix

fixed MixBoostEvtVtxGenerator.cc
Merge pull request #2386 from hroskes/systematic-misalignments-angles

Update to tracker alignment systematic misalignment tools
Merge pull request #2342 from frmeier/patch_hierarchyconstraints_53x

Patch hierarchyconstraints to CMSSW_5_3_X
Merge pull request #2450 from hroskes/cosmic-track-splitting-update-53X

Update to cosmic track splitting validation
Merge pull request #2721 from wmtan/AvoidPlaybackSegfaultOnEmptyFileList53X

Avoid playback segfault on empty file list53x
instead of doing automatic copy of precompiled tar ball, create the tar ball in a local working directory. Then, the tar ball must be copied to the afs generator directory by the MC contact
adding plot for polarization vs mass
adding patch for missing compoents of TauSpinner
adding DY example for TauSpinner
Cleaned up code after validation of polarization vs Mass
Throw a read error and not a generic error when a read fails