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In a slightly belated honor of our country's birthday, we thought we'd bring you a few of our favorite fireworks shots from Saturday. All of these shots and more can be found in our Bostonist Flickr Pool.

• Massachusetts has the second-lowest obesity rate in the nation at 21.2%, which still seems too high. [WCVB]

• Boston firefighters are defying Boston Fire Department orders to volunteer to staff three stations. [Boston Herald]

Maybe? Anyway, Project Best Idea Ever offers you the opportunity to pay $45 (per person) for a rubber raft, a life vest, and nonspecific "dinner and beverages" (which seems to involve hot dogs) on the water this July 4. It's probably a better way to view the fireworks than going out ass-early to save a spot on the Longfellow, but you could probably also just buy the gear yourself—if not for less money, at least for the opportunity to reuse it in future years. But Project Best Idea ever has clearly appealed to some folks: it's in its fifth year, and 8pm tomorrow's the deadline for reserving a raft for next weekend. Sign up for your rubber raft today, enjoy fireworks in, er, style? next weekend.

        

Fireworks lit up the skies of Greater Boston last night. From our perch on the Mass. Ave. bridge, we saw four fireworks displays, including the grandest of them all, the Boston Pops extravaganza. (The other three appeared to be in Newton, Somerville(?), and South Boston.)

--"Operation Barber Shop" went into action on the day of the Red Sox's home opener, busting a Commonwealth-wide gambling ring after 15 months of investigation by local, state, and federal authorities. They raided 14 locations, arresting 36 people and collecting 33 laptops. [Boston Globe, Boston Herald]

--First Night pictures are up! What you see above from Flickr user post406 is only a taste of the pictures you can find that are tagged "Bostonist" on Flickr. Thanks for adding your photos!

Kind of a slow week on Series of Tubes (why it's a bit late) for the end of year, but we've got the goods.