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TAMPA — When it came to moving crowds before Monday night's college football championship, the challenges were well-known, the plan was proven and the reviews were good.

On the morning after, fans praised the Riverwalk, the chance to use Uber for free and the bounty of activities clustered close together near the waterfront.

"The setup, particularly downtown, was great," said Clemson fan Russ Pearson, 51, of Greenville, S.C. "Once you parked, you had easy access."

And the choice of things to do?

"Almost too much," Pearson said. "You had to pick."

Tampa officials were so encouraged that they met Tuesday afternoon to start planning a bid to bring the game back in 2021.

Still, there were a few complaints, generally concerning traffic and crowds around Raymond James Stadium before and after the game. WFLA-Ch. 8 reported that tempers boiled over before the game because of two-hour lines of fans waiting to get into the stadium.

"We continued to monitor the landscape of it throughout," said Rob Higgins, executive director of the Tampa Bay Sports Commission, which put together the bid for the game. "Our friends at the Tampa Sports Authority are some of the best in the business when it comes to stadium operations. They were on top of it. They were working to try to expedite as quick as possible. ... Every line that was available, I'm sure, was open."

Another problem: After the game traffic leaving the stadium was gridlocked. At one point, Alabama fan B.K. "Skipper" Goodwin III of Birmingham heard from his Uber driver that it might take two hours just to get out of the RayJay parking lot. After an hour and 15 minutes, someone opened another exit, and the family managed to get back to Harbour Island about 2:30 a.m.

A Tampa Bay Times reporter saw the congestion first-hand. Well after midnight, huge numbers of people gathered along N Dale Mabry Highway south of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Some were meeting drivers who were picking them up. Others wandered into and out of the travel lanes randomly, even drunkenly. All contributed to the mess.

Still, even with the long trip home Goodwin and his family said they felt welcome and had a good time.

"We made a four-day trip out of it," he said. "Glad we did."

His son, Kyle Goodwin, said he and his wife Ashley had heard that Tampa had plenty to do for families. After going to the Florida Aquarium and walking around downtown and Ybor City, they're open to the idea of a return trip with their two small children.

"We would definitely consider coming back," he said.

That's consistent with what local officials and event organizers said they heard all weekend.

"An unqualified success," said Hillsborough County Commissioner Ken Hagan. A capacity crowd packed Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park for a free Sunday night concert with Usher. Amalie Arena ran out of earbuds to give away because so many fans showed up for media day.

The city of Atlanta, which is hosting next year's championship, and its host committee sent more than 40 people Tampa to get a feel for the game and the planning it requires.

"What I saw was a highly organized even that managed traffic flow well, that got people in and out of the game efficiently," Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said after a news conference at the Tampa Convention Center. "I saw terrific customer service. And then I saw very strong branding without it being overwhelming."

Tampa has had a lot of practice from hosting four Super Bowls, the Republican National Convention in 2012, the Bollywood Oscars in 2014, the Frozen Four collegiate hockey playoffs and the NCAA Women's Final Four.

"The good thing about having done this before is that we've got the template in place," Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn said. "We spent literally three years preparing for this. In this environment, particularly as it relates to security, it is a very, very different world than it was even a week ago. So for us, a large part of our work was making sure people were safe."

Buckhorn said much of the law enforcement preparation took into account every possible scenario, including the kind of attack that last week killed five people and wounded six others at the Fort Lauderdale airport. While the city tried to have a lot of security on hand so that fans felt safe, much of the preparation remained out of sight.

"Some of it I can't talk about," he said. "I don't know that we added more (security after the airport shooting). We may have changed some tactics."

The services the city contributes — police, paramedics, transportation planning and other personnel — might amount to more than $1 million, Buckhorn said.

Tampa managed the crowds around Curtis Hixon park by urging concert-goers to consider parking at all of the garages downtown, not just those closest to the park. After the concerts, it also directed some traffic west out of downtown toward Howard Avenue, instead of just north onto Interstate 275.

Organizers had said ahead of time the Poe garage, next to the park, would be closed. In fact, it was open.

"We had anticipated Poe would be closed" because concert staff would fill it up, Buckhorn said. "We didn't anticipate that there would be capacity at Poe during those concerts. It turned out there was, and that's fine."

Contact Richard Danielson at (813) 226-3403 or rdanielson@tampabay.com. Follow @Danielson_Times

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The Golden Globes were a strong night for "La La Land" and FX's "Atlanta," but first-time host Jimmy Fallon's performance at the movie and TV awards show received mixed reviews.

Sunday's broadcast of the 74th Golden Globe Awards by Comcast Corp's NBC topped last year's audience, following two years of declines, according to Nielsen data released by NBC.

The three-hour show drew 20 million viewers, up 8 percent from last year. Among adults 18-49, the demographic most coveted by advertisers, the audience increased 2 percent. The uptick in viewers comes after a year that saw audience declines for several major award shows including the Academy Awards, Grammys and Primetime Emmys.

As host, Fallon won few friends, with many critics missing the sharp edge brought by British comedian Ricky Gervais and duo Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in recent years. Fallon's performance was marred from the start, as the teleprompter cut out almost immediately after he walked onstage.

Industry publication Variety said Fallon, who made some Donald Trump jokes, impersonated actor Chris Rock and poked fun at singer Mariah Carey's floundering New Year's Eve performance, started strong. But he faded in the second half of the show, when he was overshadowed "by a few performers who got political, or by presenters who simply had more charisma than the 'Tonight Show' host."

Vanity Fair said Fallon was "oddly tone deaf."

"In general, the monologue was unpleasant," the magazine said. "The jokes were stale and wheezy and Fallon's lovable-cute shtick was more wearying than it was charming."

James Poniewozik at the New York Times said: "This year just didn't seem like his cultural moment."

Entertainment website Deadline called the show dull.

USA Today was kinder, saying Fallon and the Globes were a "perfect match."  

"It's almost impossible not to like Fallon," wrote Robert Bianco. "Yes, he often seems to be trying awfully hard to be liked — but darned if he doesn't succeed."

The show got low marks from viewers. "Too much blah blah. Not enough HA-HA," wrote Twitter user Cathi Carpenter. 

"Jimmy Fallon has been MIA for at least 45 minutes," tweeted Vivienne Finch during Sunday's ceremony. "This is good."

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Hi Helphians, now we are going to install Bolt CMS on Outside of the web root. Thant means install that CMS on Subdomain for your website. This page explains the other ways of installing Bolt.  Here we are using the FTP Client to install it. There are different methods to install Bolt, but we recommend this simple way. Use this guide described below to get Bolt application file and set them up on your web hosting server.

Bolt CMS introduction:

Bolt is simple, free and responsive content management tool that's written in PHP. Bolt is based on silex symphony components uses Twig. It has several features that could be very useful for Users, Frontend developers, and Backend developers. You can also choose a theme for your website from theme gallery. Bolt CMS is fully open source, Mobile responsive with easy file and image upload management.

We already installed Bolt on the main domain. Here you can find the Helphin guide: How to install Bolt CMS on Linux hosting server.

The difficult level of this guide is Medium. You can make changes with some coding and web server knowledge. Please do it very carefully when you make this changes. Let's jump in this step by step guide.

Go to the Bolt.cm page and download your copy.

Now open the download folder. Extract the Bolt zip file.

Go to the public folder inside of bolt package. Select all the file and click the left button on the mouse. Choose cut or simply press Ctrl+x keys to cut the selected files.

(Download folder/bolt-latest/bolt-x.x.x/public)

Now paste the private folder files into the main bolt-x.x.x. folder (x.x.x are version number). Extensions folder already created in that folder. So we are going to click Yes button when they ask to confirm folder replacement box. Again you can click Move and Replace button for index.php file when they ask to confirm to replace.

Now open .bolt.yml file into your text editor. Here we are using Notepad++ editor.

Remove "public" word in the line web: placed .[dot] on that line. Also remove "public" word in themebase, files, and view lines.

Now open index.php file into a text editor.

Replace the seventh line $app = require dirname (_FILE_) . '/../vendor/bolt/bolt/app/web.php'; to $app = require dirname (_FILE_) . '/vendor/bolt/bolt/app/web.php'; [Carefully].

Open Filezilla FTP application. Log in your FTP account. On the right side, choose your subdomain directory. Finally Select all the files in the left side. Right click on a mouse and select upload to your server.

Go to your browser address bar and put your domain name and enter it, when the upload process is complete. Now you can view basic administrator settings for your CMS website. Fill all the text field and click Create the first user button.

Now you can successfully log in and access your Bolt CMS administrator dashboard page. Hereafter you can also publish your content and tune up with website setting options.

Now you can learn to install Bolt CMS on an outside of the web root likes subdomain. Helphin hopes this will very helpful to you. We will keep going with another some useful web application.

Source: How to install Bolt CMS on subdomain? [Outside of the Web root]