diff --git a/couchpotato/api.py b/couchpotato/api.py
index 029ebce2..7020fd93 100644
--- a/couchpotato/api.py
+++ b/couchpotato/api.py
@@ -12,27 +12,28 @@ api_docs_missing = []
 # NonBlock API handler
 class NonBlockHandler(RequestHandler):
 
-    stoppers = []
+    stopper = None
 
     @asynchronous
     def get(self, route, *args, **kwargs):
         route = route.strip('/')
         start, stop = api_nonblock[route]
-        self.stoppers.append(stop)
+        self.stopper = stop
 
-        start(self.onNewMessage, last_id = self.get_argument("last_id", None))
+        start(self.onNewMessage, last_id = self.get_argument('last_id', None))
 
     def onNewMessage(self, response):
         if self.request.connection.stream.closed():
             return
+
         self.finish(response)
 
     def on_connection_close(self):
 
-        for stop in self.stoppers:
-            stop(self.onNewMessage)
+        if self.stopper:
+            self.stopper(self.onNewMessage)
 
-        self.stoppers = []
+        self.stopper = None
 
 def addNonBlockApiView(route, func_tuple, docs = None, **kwargs):
     api_nonblock[route] = func_tuple
diff --git a/couchpotato/core/downloaders/nzbget/main.py b/couchpotato/core/downloaders/nzbget/main.py
index c90cd2db..ef9d4efa 100644
--- a/couchpotato/core/downloaders/nzbget/main.py
+++ b/couchpotato/core/downloaders/nzbget/main.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ class NZBGet(Downloader):
         rpc = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(url)
         try:
             if rpc.writelog('INFO', 'CouchPotato connected to drop off %s.' % nzb_name):
-                log.info('Successfully connected to NZBGet')
+                log.debug('Successfully connected to NZBGet')
             else:
                 log.info('Successfully connected to NZBGet, but unable to send a message')
         except socket.error:
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ class NZBGet(Downloader):
         rpc = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(url)
         try:
             if rpc.writelog('INFO', 'CouchPotato connected to check status'):
-                log.info('Successfully connected to NZBGet')
+                log.debug('Successfully connected to NZBGet')
             else:
                 log.info('Successfully connected to NZBGet, but unable to send a message')
         except socket.error:
@@ -152,12 +152,12 @@ class NZBGet(Downloader):
 
         log.info('%s failed downloading, deleting...', item['name'])
 
-        url = self.url % {'host': self.conf('host'), 'password': self.conf('password')}
+        url = self.url % {'host': self.conf('host'), 'username': self.conf('username'), 'password': self.conf('password')}
 
         rpc = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(url)
         try:
             if rpc.writelog('INFO', 'CouchPotato connected to delete some history'):
-                log.info('Successfully connected to NZBGet')
+                log.debug('Successfully connected to NZBGet')
             else:
                 log.info('Successfully connected to NZBGet, but unable to send a message')
         except socket.error:
diff --git a/couchpotato/core/helpers/encoding.py b/couchpotato/core/helpers/encoding.py
index a11dd88b..9b753db6 100644
--- a/couchpotato/core/helpers/encoding.py
+++ b/couchpotato/core/helpers/encoding.py
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ log = CPLog(__name__)
 def toSafeString(original):
     valid_chars = "-_.() %s%s" % (ascii_letters, digits)
     cleanedFilename = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', toUnicode(original)).encode('ASCII', 'ignore')
-    return ''.join(c for c in cleanedFilename if c in valid_chars)
+    valid_string = ''.join(c for c in cleanedFilename if c in valid_chars)
+    return ' '.join(valid_string.split())
 
 def simplifyString(original):
     string = stripAccents(original.lower())
diff --git a/couchpotato/core/helpers/variable.py b/couchpotato/core/helpers/variable.py
index fa8a8b51..381889c0 100644
--- a/couchpotato/core/helpers/variable.py
+++ b/couchpotato/core/helpers/variable.py
@@ -176,6 +176,10 @@ def possibleTitles(raw_title):
     titles.append(raw_title.lower())
     titles.append(simplifyString(raw_title))
 
+    # replace some chars
+    new_title = raw_title.replace('&', 'and')
+    titles.append(simplifyString(new_title))
+
     return list(set(titles))
 
 def randomString(size = 8, chars = string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits):
diff --git a/couchpotato/core/loader.py b/couchpotato/core/loader.py
index a97437a2..0f49700a 100644
--- a/couchpotato/core/loader.py
+++ b/couchpotato/core/loader.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ class Loader(object):
         provider_dir = os.path.join(root, 'couchpotato', 'core', 'providers')
         for provider in os.listdir(provider_dir):
             path = os.path.join(provider_dir, provider)
-            if os.path.isdir(path):
+            if os.path.isdir(path) and provider[:2] != '__':
                 self.paths[provider + '_provider'] = (25, 'couchpotato.core.providers.' + provider, path)
 
 
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ class Loader(object):
             for module_name, plugin in sorted(self.modules[priority].iteritems()):
                 # Load module
                 try:
+                    if plugin.get('name')[:2] == '__':
+                        continue
+
                     m = getattr(self.loadModule(module_name), plugin.get('name'))
 
                     log.info('Loading %s: %s', (plugin['type'], plugin['name']))
diff --git a/couchpotato/core/notifications/core/main.py b/couchpotato/core/notifications/core/main.py
index b6c07f58..a6ce2a63 100644
--- a/couchpotato/core/notifications/core/main.py
+++ b/couchpotato/core/notifications/core/main.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ from couchpotato.core.logger import CPLog
 from couchpotato.core.notifications.base import Notification
 from couchpotato.core.settings.model import Notification as Notif
 from couchpotato.environment import Env
+from operator import itemgetter
 from sqlalchemy.sql.expression import or_
 import threading
 import time
@@ -19,8 +20,6 @@ log = CPLog(__name__)
 class CoreNotifier(Notification):
 
     m_lock = threading.Lock()
-    messages = []
-    listeners = []
 
     def __init__(self):
         super(CoreNotifier, self).__init__()
@@ -51,10 +50,14 @@ class CoreNotifier(Notification):
         addApiView('notification.listener', self.listener)
 
         fireEvent('schedule.interval', 'core.check_messages', self.checkMessages, hours = 12, single = True)
+        fireEvent('schedule.interval', 'core.clean_messages', self.cleanMessages, seconds = 15, single = True)
 
         addEvent('app.load', self.clean)
         addEvent('app.load', self.checkMessages)
 
+        self.messages = []
+        self.listeners = []
+
     def clean(self):
 
         db = get_session()
@@ -169,8 +172,8 @@ class CoreNotifier(Notification):
             except:
                 log.debug('Failed sending to listener: %s', traceback.format_exc())
 
+        self.listeners = []
         self.m_lock.release()
-        self.cleanMessages()
 
         log.debug('Done notifying frontend')
 
@@ -199,12 +202,14 @@ class CoreNotifier(Notification):
 
     def cleanMessages(self):
 
+        if len(self.messages) == 0:
+            return
+
         log.debug('Cleaning messages')
         self.m_lock.acquire()
 
-        for message in self.messages:
-            if message['time'] < (time.time() - 15):
-                self.messages.remove(message)
+        time_ago = (time.time() - 15)
+        self.messages[:] = [m for m in self.messages if (m['time'] > time_ago)]
 
         self.m_lock.release()
         log.debug('Done cleaning messages')
@@ -215,16 +220,16 @@ class CoreNotifier(Notification):
         self.m_lock.acquire()
 
         recent = []
-        index = 0
-        for i in xrange(len(self.messages)):
-            index = len(self.messages) - i - 1
-            if self.messages[index]["message_id"] == last_id: break
-            recent = self.messages[index:]
+        try:
+            index = map(itemgetter('message_id'), self.messages).index(last_id)
+            recent = self.messages[index+1:]
+        except:
+            pass
 
         self.m_lock.release()
-        log.debug('Returning for %s %s messages', (last_id, len(recent or [])))
+        log.debug('Returning for %s %s messages', (last_id, len(recent)))
 
-        return recent or []
+        return recent
 
     def listener(self, init = False, **kwargs):
 
@@ -237,6 +242,7 @@ class CoreNotifier(Notification):
             notifications = db.query(Notif) \
                 .filter(or_(Notif.read == False, Notif.added > (time.time() - 259200))) \
                 .all()
+
             for n in notifications:
                 ndict = n.to_dict()
                 ndict['type'] = 'notification'
diff --git a/couchpotato/core/plugins/quality/main.py b/couchpotato/core/plugins/quality/main.py
index b1034a53..67c7f00d 100644
--- a/couchpotato/core/plugins/quality/main.py
+++ b/couchpotato/core/plugins/quality/main.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ class QualityPlugin(Plugin):
         {'identifier': 'brrip', 'hd': True, 'size': (700, 7000), 'label': 'BR-Rip', 'alternative': ['bdrip'], 'allow': ['720p', '1080p'], 'ext':['avi'], 'tags': ['hdtv', 'hdrip', 'webdl', ('web', 'dl')]},
         {'identifier': 'dvdr', 'size': (3000, 10000), 'label': 'DVD-R', 'alternative': [], 'allow': [], 'ext':['iso', 'img'], 'tags': ['pal', 'ntsc', 'video_ts', 'audio_ts']},
         {'identifier': 'dvdrip', 'size': (600, 2400), 'label': 'DVD-Rip', 'width': 720, 'alternative': [], 'allow': [], 'ext':['avi', 'mpg', 'mpeg'], 'tags': [('dvd', 'rip'), ('dvd', 'xvid'), ('dvd', 'divx')]},
-        {'identifier': 'scr', 'size': (600, 1600), 'label': 'Screener', 'alternative': ['screener', 'dvdscr', 'ppvrip', 'dvdscreener'], 'allow': ['dvdr', 'dvd'], 'ext':['avi', 'mpg', 'mpeg'], 'tags': ['webrip', ('web', 'rip')]},
+        {'identifier': 'scr', 'size': (600, 1600), 'label': 'Screener', 'alternative': ['screener', 'dvdscr', 'ppvrip', 'dvdscreener', 'hdscr'], 'allow': ['dvdr', 'dvd'], 'ext':['avi', 'mpg', 'mpeg'], 'tags': ['webrip', ('web', 'rip')]},
         {'identifier': 'r5', 'size': (600, 1000), 'label': 'R5', 'alternative': ['r6'], 'allow': ['dvdr'], 'ext':['avi', 'mpg', 'mpeg']},
         {'identifier': 'tc', 'size': (600, 1000), 'label': 'TeleCine', 'alternative': ['telecine'], 'allow': [], 'ext':['avi', 'mpg', 'mpeg']},
         {'identifier': 'ts', 'size': (600, 1000), 'label': 'TeleSync', 'alternative': ['telesync', 'hdts'], 'allow': [], 'ext':['avi', 'mpg', 'mpeg']},
diff --git a/couchpotato/core/plugins/score/scores.py b/couchpotato/core/plugins/score/scores.py
index 4d966eb2..a95b0a42 100644
--- a/couchpotato/core/plugins/score/scores.py
+++ b/couchpotato/core/plugins/score/scores.py
@@ -68,9 +68,12 @@ def namePositionScore(nzb_name, movie_name):
     name_year = fireEvent('scanner.name_year', nzb_name, single = True)
 
     # Give points for movies beginning with the correct name
-    name_split = simplifyString(nzb_name).split(simplifyString(movie_name))
-    if name_split[0].strip() == '':
-        score += 10
+    split_by = simplifyString(movie_name)
+    name_split = []
+    if len(split_by) > 0:
+        name_split = simplifyString(nzb_name).split(split_by)
+        if name_split[0].strip() == '':
+            score += 10
 
     # If year is second in line, give more points
     if len(name_split) > 1 and name_year:
diff --git a/couchpotato/core/plugins/searcher/main.py b/couchpotato/core/plugins/searcher/main.py
index dfb6ccba..b55e7201 100644
--- a/couchpotato/core/plugins/searcher/main.py
+++ b/couchpotato/core/plugins/searcher/main.py
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ class Searcher(Plugin):
 
                 download_preference = self.conf('preferred_method')
                 if download_preference != 'both':
-                    sorted_results = sorted(sorted_results, key = lambda k: k['type'], reverse = (download_preference == 'torrent'))
+                    sorted_results = sorted(sorted_results, key = lambda k: k['type'][:3], reverse = (download_preference == 'torrent'))
 
                 # Check if movie isn't deleted while searching
                 if not db.query(Movie).filter_by(id = movie.get('id')).first():
diff --git a/couchpotato/core/providers/automation/itunes/main.py b/couchpotato/core/providers/automation/itunes/main.py
index 14ca2a82..8e352370 100644
--- a/couchpotato/core/providers/automation/itunes/main.py
+++ b/couchpotato/core/providers/automation/itunes/main.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ class ITunes(Automation, RSS):
         for url in urls:
 
             index += 1
-            if not enablers[index]:
+            if len(enablers) == 0 or len(enablers) < index or not enablers[index]:
                 continue
 
             try: