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extension String {
    func isEmail() -> Bool {
        let emailRegEx = "[A-Z0-9a-z._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Za-z]{2,6}"
        let emailTest = NSPredicate(format:"SELF MATCHES %@", emailRegEx)
        return emailTest.evaluateWithObject(self)
    }
    
    func convertStringToDictionary() -> [String:AnyObject]? {
        if let data = self.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding) {
            do {

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extension UIColor {
    class func fromHexString(hex:String) -> UIColor {
        let hex = hex.stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet(NSCharacterSet.alphanumericCharacterSet().invertedSet)
        var int = UInt32()
        NSScanner(string: hex).scanHexInt(&int)
        let a, r, g, b: UInt32
        switch hex.characters.count {
        case 3: // RGB (12-bit)
            (a, r, g, b) = (255, (int >> 8) * 17, (int >> 4 & 0xF) * 17, (int & 0xF) * 17)
        case 6: // RGB (24-bit)

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extension NSDate {
  convenience init(ISO8601:String) {
        let dateStringFormatter = NSDateFormatter()
        dateStringFormatter.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZZZZZ"
        dateStringFormatter.locale = NSLocale.systemLocale()
        let d = dateStringFormatter.dateFromString(ISO8601)
        self.init(timeInterval:0, sinceDate:d!)
    }
    
    class func getLastDayOfMonthFrom(month:Int,year:Int) -> NSDate {