--- a/documents/genericScrapers.py
+++ b/documents/genericScrapers.py
@@ -7,11 +7,14 @@
 from datetime import datetime
 import feedparser
 import abc
+import unicodedata, re
 
 class GenericDisclogScraper(object):
         __metaclass__ = abc.ABCMeta
 	agencyID = None
 	disclogURL = None
+	def remove_control_chars(self, input):
+		return "".join([i for i in input if ord(i) in range(32, 127)])
         def getAgencyID(self):
                 """ disclosr agency id """
 		if self.agencyID == None:
@@ -79,6 +82,8 @@
                 	descriptiontxt = descriptiontxt + " \n" + string
                 doc.update({'description': descriptiontxt})
 		return
+	def getTable(self, soup):
+		return soup.table
 
 	def doScrape(self):
 		cal = pdt.Calendar()
@@ -88,12 +93,16 @@
 			if mime_type == "text/html" or mime_type == "application/xhtml+xml" or mime_type =="application/xml":
 			# http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/documentation.html
 				soup = BeautifulSoup(content)
-				for row in soup.table.find_all('tr'):
+				table = self.getTable(soup)
+				for row in table.find_all('tr'):
 					columns = row.find_all('td')
 					if len(columns) == self.getColumnCount():
 						(id, date, description, title, notes) = self.getColumns(columns)
 						print id.string
-						hash = scrape.mkhash(url+id.string)
+						if id.string == None:
+							hash = scrape.mkhash(self.remove_control_chars(url+date.string))
+						else:
+							hash = scrape.mkhash(self.remove_control_chars(url+id.string))
 						links = []
 						for atag in row.find_all("a"):
 							if atag.has_key('href'):
@@ -108,13 +117,12 @@
 								print dtdate
                                                         	edate = ""+str(dtdate[0])+'-'+str(dtdate[1])+'-'+str(dtdate[2])
 							else:
-								edate = datetime.strptime(date.string, "%d %B %Y").strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
+								edate = datetime.strptime(date.string.strip(), "%d %B %Y").strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
 							doc = {'_id': hash, 'agencyID': self.getAgencyID(), 'url': self.getURL(), 'docID': id.string,
 			 				 "date": edate,"title": title.string}
-							self.getDescription(description,row, doc)
-
                                 			if links != []:
                                         			doc.update({'links': links})
+							self.getDescription(description,row, doc)
                                 			if notes != None:
                                         			doc.update({ 'notes': notes.string})
 							foidocsdb.save(doc)