Because the Spanish nationwide anthem rang out for what could be the ultimate time in his profession, Rafael Nadal couldn’t cease his feelings from flowing. Tears welled up in his eyes and his fingers visibly shook by his facet. Lastly, the final stage of this epic 30-year journey had begun, a second he by no means wished to reach however had no alternative however to face. Nadal’s viewers responded to his outpouring of feelings, clear to see on the large display, with thunderous chants of “Rafa! Rafa!”

Not even these deafening, fixed roars from the group may assist to push Nadal past the bounds of his bruised and damaged physique. Regardless of combating for each final level with the diligence and desperation that has outlined him, Nadal was comprehensively defeated 6-4, 6-4 by Botic van de Zandschulp within the opening Davis Cup rubber between Spain and the Netherlands, a match that may become the final of his skilled profession.

Within the early hours of Wednesday morning, Spain fell 2-1 to the Netherlands within the quarter-finals of the Davis Cup. Spain had regarded to the brand new main mild of Spanish tennis, Carlos Alcaraz, to discover a manner again and the 21-year-old pulled them stage with a 7-6 (0), 6-3 win over Tallon Griekspoor. “I did it for Rafa,” he mentioned.

Alcaraz then returned to the courtroom for the decisive doubles match alongside Marcel Granollers. In an extremely tense, high-quality battle, Wesley Koolhof and Van de Zandschulp closed out the match with a dramatic 7-6 (4) 7-6 (3), win. Nadal watched on from courtside in Spain’s workforce field, cheering and training his teammates till the ultimate level.

Up to now few days, because the tie neared, hypothesis raged about precisely what type Nadal’s participation in Málaga would take. He had not performed an official match because the Olympic Video games practically 4 months in the past, so the consensus was that he would solely take to the courtroom in doubles. After arriving sooner than most gamers and coaching diligently, together with a set with Alcaraz on Monday night time, Nadal was given the inexperienced mild to compete in singles.

“Issues can go properly, can go dangerous,” he mentioned. “Placing myself on the sphere to play the primary match was a threat, however that’s the work of the captain, no? He has to make selections, and David [Ferrer], I’m certain he make the choice pondering what’s the very best for the workforce, not for myself.”

What adopted was an event like no different. Nadal composed himself as he warmed up with Van de Zandschulp; the MC opted to slowly, pointedly learn out each vital achievement accrued by every participant individually.

For Van de Zandschulp, the world No 80, it was a brief and understated lead-in. Nadal’s introduction, nevertheless, was virtually a PowerPoint presentation. After every of his main titles – 22 grand slam titles, two Olympic gold medals, 5 Davis Cup victories – have been learn out, the group responded with an exclamation of “Ayy”. It took a number of minutes for the announcer to work by way of one of many biggest resumes a tennis participant has compiled.

The spectacle that adopted, nevertheless, bore little resemblance to these legendary occasions of previous. It shortly grew to become clear that Nadal was severely restricted. His motion was poor, notably in direction of his backhand wing and his forehand frequently dropped brief, permitting Van de Zandschulp to overpower him. He struggled badly together with his return of serve.

There have been nonetheless moments the 11,000-strong viewers will always remember; within the second set, he chased down a lob and responded with an overhead skyhook, his again to the web, earlier than sending the followers to their ft by profitable the purpose. Down 4-1 and a double break, Nadal pulled a break again by way of his sheer pressure of will. Many occasions up to now, that may have been the beginning of an epic comeback. This time, he didn’t come shut.

Earlier than the tie, Nadal had made a degree of noting that he was right here to play and assist the workforce – not merely to complete his profession. In actuality, Spain’s greatest workforce configuration would have positioned Nadal in a doubles-only capability. However he is without doubt one of the biggest of all time and the sight of him stepping on to the courtroom for one final tussle was extra significant to the group than any win.

Issues are heating up for Hiccup and Toothless within the teaser trailer for Common Photos‘ live-action reimagining of Practice Your Dragon.

Author-director Dean DeBlois‘ function hits theaters June 13, 2025, and is a shot-for-shot remake of DreamWorks Animation‘s hit animated movie of the identical identify that was launched in 2010. The brand new model stars Mason Thames as Hiccup and Nico Parker as Astrid. Rounding out the forged are Gerard Butler, Nick Frost, Julian Dennison, Gabriel Howell, Bronwyn James, Harry Trevaldwyn, Ruth Codd, Peter Serafinowicz and Murray McArthur.

The live-action Practice Your Dragon facilities on a younger Viking named Hiccup (Thames), who units out to hunt dragons however finds himself befriending one named Toothless.

“Dad, I can’t kill dragons,” he says within the trailer to his father, Stoick the Huge (Butler, reprising his function from the animated franchise). Hiccup’s dad responds firmly, “However you’ll.”

DeBlois, who has been concerned with the franchise since its launch, wrote and directed the brand new venture. It’s primarily based on the 2010 animated movie he co-directed with Chris Sanders, which itself was impressed by the guide collection from creator Cressida Cowell. Serving as producers on the brand new film are DeBlois, Marc Platt and Adam Siegel.

The Practice Your Dragon movie franchise has earned 4 Oscar nominations and surpassed $1.6 billion on the world field workplace. The 2010 animated function spawned two sequels, with the newest being 2019’s Practice Your Dragon: The Hidden World. There have additionally been 5 brief movies and three tv collection.

Thames is thought for such tasks as Common’s 2022 horror flick The Black Cellphone and Netflix’s latest teen comedy Incoming. Jay Baruchel voiced Hiccup within the animated movies.

A serious storm swept throughout the U.S. Northwest battering the area with robust winds and rain, inflicting widespread energy outages, closing faculties and downing bushes that killed at the very least two individuals.

The Climate Prediction Middle issued extreme rainfall dangers via Friday and hurricane-force wind warnings had been in impact because the strongest atmospheric river — a big plume of moisture — that California and the Pacific Northwest has seen this season overwhelmed the area. The storm system that hit beginning Tuesday is taken into account a “ bomb cyclone,” which happens when a cyclone intensifies quickly.

In California, the climate service prolonged a flood watch into Saturday for areas north of San Francisco. As much as 16 inches of rain (40 cm) was forecast in northern California and southwestern Oregon via Friday. Harmful flash flooding, rock slides and particles flows had been doable, officers warned.

A winter storm watch was in place for the northern Sierra Nevada above 3,500 ft (1,066 meters), the place 15 inches (28 cm) of snow was doable over two days. Wind gusts might prime 75 mph (120 kph) in mountain areas, forecasters mentioned.

Heavy, moist snow was anticipated to proceed alongside the Cascades and in components of far northern California. Forecasters warned of blizzard and whiteout situations and close to not possible journey at move stage attributable to accumulation charges of two to three inches (5 to 7.6 centimeters) per hour and wind gusts of as much as 65 mph (105 kph).

Falling bushes struck houses and littered roads throughout western Washington. In Lynnwood, a girl died Tuesday evening when a big tree fell on a homeless encampment, South County Hearth mentioned in a press release. In Bellevue, east of Seattle, a tree fell onto a house, killing a girl Tuesday evening, fireplace officers mentioned.

Tracy Meloy of Issaquah, Washington, felt well-prepared for the storm Tuesday afternoon, with dinner prepped and lanterns prepared. However then she spent the evening listening to wind-whipped particles hit the skin of her dwelling, together with a very loud “thump” round 9 p.m. On Wednesday morning she ventured exterior to survey the injury to her neighborhood about 17 miles (27 kilometers) east of Seattle.

“Now that I’m standing right here in entrance of the home, I can inform it’s the tree that was throughout the road,” Meloy mentioned. The tree pulled down the ability strains in entrance of her dwelling. Limbs, leaves and different vegetation had been strewn all around the street.

“It seems like a forest flooring as an alternative of a road,” she mentioned.

The variety of energy outage studies in Washington fluctuated wildly Tuesday night, however steadily declined to about 460,000 by Wednesday afternoon, in line with poweroutage.us. Greater than a dozen faculties had been closed in Seattle alone.

About 2,800 prospects had been reported to be with out energy Wednesday in Oregon, 38,000 in California and 10,000 round Carson Metropolis and Reno, Nevada. Three Reno faculties had been closed and semi-trucks had been prohibited on the primary freeway between the 2 cities attributable to excessive winds. All chairlifts had been shut down on the Mt. Rose Ski Resort close to Lake Tahoe.

The climate service warned individuals on the West Coast in regards to the hazard of bushes throughout excessive winds, posting on the social platform X: “Keep protected by avoiding exterior rooms and home windows and by utilizing warning when driving.”

Southbound Interstate 5 was closed for an 11-mile (18-km) stretch from Ashland, Oregon, to the California border on Wednesday morning attributable to excessive winter climate situations in northern California, in line with the Oregon Division of Transportation. It was anticipated to be a long-term closure, the division mentioned.

The climate service issued a flood look ahead to components of southwestern Oregon via Friday night, whereas tough winds and seas halted a ferry route in northwestern Washington between Port Townsend and Coupeville for a part of the day.

As Robert and Lisa Haynes of Issaquah surveyed the injury of their neighborhood, they noticed fallen branches or bushes blocking driveways and roads. They had been caught at dwelling.

“It is like a snow day,” Robert Haynes mentioned, “however with no snow.”

In Juneau, Alaska, gusts of wind as much as 60 mph (96 kph) had been forecast.

To the east, the primary important snow of the season within the Dakotas and Minnesota led to accidents and slippery roadways. The climate service mentioned as much as 16 inches (40 cm) might fall within the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota, and Minot might rise up to eight inches (20 cm).

Officers suggested individuals not no journey all through northern North Dakota, and state troopers in northern Minnesota responded to a number of accidents together with tractor-trailers that jackknifed on Interstate 94 after the roadway grew to become slippery from snow and ice.

Winds had been anticipated to be problematic in components of Montana and Nebraska, with gusts as much as 60 mph (97 kph), the climate service mentioned.

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Golden reported from Seattle and Baumann reported from Bellingham, Washington. Jim Salter in St. Louis; Scott Sonner in Reno, Nevada; Christopher Weber in Los Angeles; and Becky Bohrer in Juneau, Alaska, contributed.

The primary teaser trailer for Common’s extremely anticipated live-action remake of Practice Your Dragon dropped on Tuesday, sparking blended response from followers.

Author-director Dean DeBlois, who was behind the animated Practice Your Dragon trilogy, is returning for the live-action function.

The movie is supposed to be a shot-for-shot remake of the 2010 unique, which was based mostly on a youngsters’s e book sequence of the identical title by Cressida Cowell.

The trailer for the live-action model exhibits a number of older characters returning, together with new faces. Mason Thames stars as Hiccup whereas Nico Parker performs Astrid. They’re joined by Gerard Butler, who performs Hiccup’s father Stoick the Huge, Nick Frost, Julian Dennison, Gabriel Howell, Bronwyn James, Harry Trevaldwyn, Ruth Codd, Peter Serafinowicz, and Murray McArthur.

“On the rugged isle of Berk, the place Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations, Hiccup stands aside,” the movie’s synopsis reads. “The ingenious but ignored son of Chief Stoick the Huge, Hiccup defies centuries of custom when he befriends Toothless, a feared Night time Fury dragon. Their unlikely bond reveals the true nature of dragons, difficult the very foundations of Viking society.”

Reactions to the trailer have been blended. Many followers have been overjoyed that Toothless within the live-action reimagining seems to be nearly the identical because the dragon from the animated movies, however some have questioned the purpose of the remake if each shot is an identical.

Nico Parker’s casting as Astrid led to a Tiktoker questioning the “race-swapping” since Astrid is supposed to be a Viking within the unique animated movie, and Parker is biracial, which is “distorting historical past”.

Individuals have principally reacted to the TikTok video with reminders that the movie relies on a youngsters’s e book about dragons, and never an actual, historic occasion.

The Practice Your Dragon movies earned 4 Oscar nominations and grossed over $1.6 bn on the field workplace globally. After the primary instalment in 2010, sequels Practice Your Dragon 2 and Practice Your Dragon: The Hidden World had been launched in 2014 and 2019, respectively.

The live-action model is ready to be launched in theatres on 13 June 2025.

Tuesday 19 November is Worldwide Males’s Day, which celebrates the constructive worth males carry to the world, their households and communities.

The day raises consciousness of males’s wellbeing, and the theme for 2024 is ‘constructive male position fashions’.

Assist obtainable

Suicide is the main reason for dying within the UK for males aged beneath 50. In case you are struggling along with your emotions, and coping normally, please discuss to somebody.

Andy’s Man Membership Bracknell

Andy’s Man Membership is a males’s suicide prevention charity, providing free-to attend peer-to-peer assist teams throughout the UK and on-line. There’s a group primarily based in Bracknell who meet each Monday at 7pm.

Andy’s Man Membership need to finish the stigma surrounding males’s psychological well being and assist males by way of the facility of dialog. They create a judgement-free, confidential area the place males will be open in regards to the storms of their lives. 

Ascot Shed

There may be additionally a local people group known as ‘Ascot Shed’. This affords males an opportunity to speak and socialise with others, whereas participating in actions like carpentry, mannequin making and even computing. It’s a area to study and practise expertise, share experiences and experience, and socialise with like-minded individuals.

Initially geared toward males who had retired and misplaced social connections, Shed goals to deal with isolation and enhance males’s well being and wellbeing alongside the way in which. If this feels like it might be your factor, or for a person you realize, pop alongside for a chat and a cuppa.

Earlier this month was Assist for Male Victims of Home Abuse Day. You will need to do not forget that Berkshire Girls’s Support (BWA), our native home abuse assist service, affords assist to all genders. Should you need assistance, you’ll be able to name their helpline on 0808 801 0882 or e mail: helpdesk@bwaid.org.uk.

About Worldwide Males’s Day

The primary time Worldwide Males’s Day was celebrated within the UK, was by the College of Kent college students in 2008. Although comparable occasions haven’t averted controversy, with many highlighting the comparative benefits males have within the office over girls.

Nonetheless, others have highlighted among the challenges males nonetheless face, together with males accounting for 75 per cent of all suicides within the UK in 2019. The occasion has developed and is now seen as an opportunity to spotlight males’s expertise, somewhat than compete with Worldwide Girls’s Day.

The principle goals are:

• to enhance gender relations 
• spotlight male position fashions
• promote constructive expressions of masculinity 

LOS ANGELES — — Dalton Knecht tied the NBA’s single-game rookie report with 9 3-pointers whereas scoring a career-high 37 factors, and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Utah Jazz 124-118 Tuesday night time for his or her sixth consecutive victory.

LeBron James had 26 factors and 12 assists, and Anthony Davis had 26 factors and 14 rebounds because the Lakers improved to 7-0 at residence. Austin Reaves added 17 factors for the defending NBA Cup champions, who improved to 2-0 in group play this season.

The Lakers hadn’t received six straight video games since February 2021, shortly after their championship run within the Florida bubble.

Lauri Markkanen scored 25 factors for the Jazz, who’ve misplaced three straight. Keyonte George scored 10 of his 18 factors within the fourth quarter, and Collin Sexton added 9 of his 19 within the fourth.

Rui Hachimura missed his third straight sport with a sprained ankle. Bronny James sat with a bruised heel.

Takeaways

Jazz: One other tough night time for a rebuilding crew, lowlighted by John Collins’ flagrant foul for hanging Davis within the groin. The 43-point fourth quarter was spectacular, however too late.

Lakers: Knecht has been excellent since becoming a member of the beginning lineup 4 video games in the past, racking up 24.3 factors per sport whereas hitting 21 3-pointers. He has been the catch-and-shoot menace lengthy lacked by James and Davis.

Key second

Knecht hit 3-pointers on 4 consecutive possessions within the third quarter, getting all the crowd on its toes. He scored 21 factors within the third alone. His ninth 3-pointer put LA up by 25 early within the fourth, however he did not rating once more, and Utah trimmed the lead down the stretch.

Key stat

Knecht tied the single-game rookie 3-pointer report shared by Rodrigue Beaubois (2010), Yogi Ferrell (2017) and Utah’s Keyonte George (2024).

Up subsequent

Jazz: Go to San Antonio on Thursday to finish their four-game journey.

Lakers: Host Orlando on Thursday.

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Danny DeVito has turned 80, and his movie star buddies have honored the milestone with a collection of tributes.

“This man was born 80 years in the past at present. He might nonetheless drink you underneath the desk. He might nonetheless make you giggle tougher than anybody you’ve ever met. He might nonetheless make you are feeling such as you’re the one individual within the room. He might nonetheless provide the greatest recommendation you’ve ever gotten and make you are feeling liked it doesn’t matter what. He’s an American treasure,” wrote his All the time Sunny In Philadelphia co-star Rob McElhenney.

However what will we find out about Danny’s household? Here’s a look into his marriage of over 30 years and his three kids.

Danny DeVito’s spouse Rhea Perlman

Danny, 80, met actress Rhea Perlman on January 17, 1971 when she attended the one efficiency of Danny’s play The Shrinking Bride. 

They moved in collectively two weeks later, and obtained married on January 28, 1982.

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“I needed to meet him instantly,” Rhea mentioned in 2017. “I got here on to him huge time!”

Rhea, 76, is understood for her work within the award-winning comedy Cheers, successful 4 Emmys for her function as head waitress Carla Tortelli.

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Danny and Rhea have appeared collectively in a number of initiatives; their first was within the Seventies sitcom Taxi during which Rhea performed the girlfriend of Louie De Palma, performed by Danny, and so they additionally starred as Matilda’s mother and father within the 1996 movie Matilda.

When did Danny  DeVito break up from his spouse?

In October 2012, Rhea and Danny shocked followers once they introduced that they had separated after 30 years of marriage and over 40 years collectively.

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5 months later they reunited however in March 2027, they revealed that that they had break up for a second time, and had no intent of submitting for divorce.

“We’ve been collectively a really very long time, so there’s a whole lot of love and historical past,” she informed Web page Six. “We agree on sufficient issues, so why [ruin] that with the yucky issues that include a divorce?”

Danny DeVito’s three kids:

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Danny and Rhea welcomed three kids collectively; Lucy, 41, Grace, 39, and son Jacob, 37.

Lucy is following in her mother and father’ footsteps and has turn into an actress, after graduating from Brown College in 2007 with a level in theater. Her first main film function was the 2009 movie Leaves of Grass and has since appeared alongside her mom Rhea within the off-Broadway play Love, Loss, and What I Wore, and her dad Danny within the 2016 movie The Comic.

In 2023 Lucy and her father reunited once more to star collectively within the Broadway present I Want That, and Rhea joined the pair on opening night time.

2024 was additionally an enormous yr for Lucy as she welcomed her first youngster together with her fiance, debuting her child bump on the 2024 SAG Awards.

Grace has saved out of the highlight, however obtained an MFA from CalArts in 2012 and studied at The New York Studio College, and now lives and works in LA specializing in efficiency artwork and work.

In 2019 Grace married Andy Giannakakis, and so they welcomed their son Sinclair in 2023.

Jacob, often called Jake, is a producer and director, and he as soon as mentioned in an interview that his childhood was a “nice rising up expertise for us,” as his mother and father would take their kids the world over with them.

Rob McElhenney and the opposite stars of It’s At all times Sunny in Philadelphia have paid tribute to their co-star Danny DeVito, because the Hollywood icon turns 80.

DeVito has starred as Frank Reynolds within the US sitcom since 2006, which has given him a late profession renaissance and cemented him as a contemporary cultural icon.

The Batman Returns star not too long ago celebrated his eightieth birthday on Sunday (17 November), which noticed a lot of his fellow stars on the present put up glowing popularity of DeVito, each as an actor and a human.

“This man was born 80 years in the past in the present day. He may nonetheless drink you beneath the desk,” wrote Rob McElhenney on X/Twitter.

“He may nonetheless make you chuckle more durable than anybody you’ve ever met. He may nonetheless make you’re feeling such as you’re the one particular person within the room. He may nonetheless provide the greatest recommendation you’ve ever gotten and make you’re feeling beloved it doesn’t matter what. He’s an American treasure. There is just one @Danny DeVito.”

On Instagram, Kaitlin Olson mentioned: “Comfortable birthday to my favorite (rum) ham. Danny DeVito is every little thing you need him to be. Lights up each room, makes positive everyone seems to be taken care of, offers his entire coronary heart to every little thing and everybody he loves. Right here’s to 80 extra. I wouldn’t put it previous him.”

The solid of It’s At all times Sunny, which additionally stars Charlie Day and Glenn Howerton, are set to star in a particular two-episode crossover occasion with ABC hit Abbott Elementary.

The distinctive collaboration has reportedly already been shot, with Olson not too long ago telling Selection, “It was very enjoyable.”

She added: “They’ll [Abbott Elementary cast] be leaping into our world in a few weeks, which could be very thrilling. So it’s been actually enjoyable for each of our casts to have the ability to do – them a cable present and us a community present.”

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Elsewhere, McElhenney not too long ago hit again at Jerry Seinfeld’s suggestion that sitcoms have misplaced their edge with a one-word reference to his personal present.

Seinfeld, 70, made headlines earlier this 12 months by claiming in an interview with The New Yorker that “the intense left [and] PC [politically correct] c**p and folks worrying a lot about offending different folks” is answerable for the “loss of life” of tv comedy.

The comic, whose present Seinfeld ran from 1989 to 1998, went on to assert that most of the jokes within the collection would now not be allowed to be broadcast.

“[One would be] Kramer decides to begin a enterprise of getting homeless folks pull rickshaws as a result of, as he says, ‘They’re outdoors anyway’,” mentioned Seinfeld. “Do you assume I may get that episode on the air in the present day?”

On X/Twitter McElhenney responded on to that query, replying: “In all probability.”

Jeremy Clarkson, 64, joined fellow farmers on Tuesday in London to protest in regards to the so-called ‘tractor tax’ that the Labour authorities is implementing. He was left in scorching water when BBC journalist Victoria Derbyshire requested him: “Is it not about you? About your farm since you purchased a farm to keep away from inheritance tax?”

Victoria pushed him on his personal feedback relating to inheritance and the acquisition of Diddly Squat, and he clapped again with: “I needed to shoot,” claiming that the inheritance tax state of affairs is simply an incidental good thing about the state of affairs.

He has since clarified: “The one purpose I stated that’s as a result of I really purchased the farm as a result of I needed to shoot, however you’ll be able to’t go round saying, ‘Oh, I needed to shoot’ as a result of then you definitely get shouted at by animal fanatics.

“I jokingly stated, oh, it is simply inheritance tax and now after all it is come again to chew me on the arse, however it does not actually matter as a result of we’re right here to help farmers, we’re not speaking about me.”

In 2021, starring on HELLO!’s Highlight cowl, Jeremy advised us: “I’ve really lived on the farm for a few years, we had it for all types of inheritance tax causes. The farm made no cash, it did not value any cash, it was only a good factor to have. It was run by a chap from the village who was a farmer, after which when he was retiring, I all of the sudden thought, ‘I can do this.'”

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Beforehand Jeremy spoke on the Prime Gear web site, about his reasoning behind the massive venture: “I’ve purchased a farm. There are numerous smart causes for this. Land is a greater funding than any financial institution can supply.

“The federal government does not get any of my cash after I die. And the worth of the meals that I develop can solely go up. However there’s one other, far more vital purpose: I can now have a quad bike.”

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The protests come following the information that from, 2026, the federal government will introduce a tax of 20% on inherited farming property above £1 million. Many farmers are worrying that will probably be the demise of household farms that get handed down the generations.

This farming tax may also have an effect on the royal household, together with Princess Anne’s property Gatcombe Park, and what is going to occur when it’s handed all the way down to her kids sooner or later.

What’s Diddly Squat Farm actually like?

Situated in Chipping Norton, the farm has obtained plenty of consideration for the reason that success of Jeremy’s Amazon Prime present, Clarkson’s Farm. Every weekend, followers flock to the Farm Store, and it has brought on a flurry of complaints over visitors points.

TV & Movie Editor, Emmy Griffiths spent the day at Diddly Squat Farm the place she met Kaleb and cute piglets!