Himax Technologies: Current Headwinds Hide A Bright FutureStorm dumps record rain and heavy snow on Northern California. Many in Seattle still without powerJimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100 ATLANTA (AP) — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died. He was 100 years old and had spent roughly 22 months in hospice care. The Georgia peanut farmer served one turbulent term in the White House before building a reputation as a global humanitarian and champion of democracy. He defeated President Gerald Ford in 1976 promising to restore trust in government but lost to Ronald Reagan four years later amid soaring inflation, gas station lines and the Iran hostage crisis. He and his wife Rosalynn then formed The Carter Center, and he earned a Nobel Peace Prize while making himself the most internationally engaged of former presidents. The Carter Center said he died peacefully Sunday afternoon in Plains, Georgia, surrounded by his family. 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A fourth infant dies of the winter cold in Gaza as families share blankets in seaside tents DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A fourth infant has died of hypothermia in Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by nearly 15 months of war are huddled in tents along the rainy, windswept coast as winter arrives. The baby's father says the 20-day-old child was found with his head as “cold as ice” Sunday morning in their tent. The baby’s twin brother was moved to the intensive care unit of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. Their father says the twins were born one month premature and spent just a day in hospital, which like other Gaza health centers has been overwhelmed and only partially functions. 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Gartner Inc. stock rises Friday, still underperforms marketTo people outside of North America, the NORAD Santa Tracker can seem a little strange. North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) uses the most sophisticated technology in the world, designed to track missile threats against the continent, to simulate Father Christmas out on his delivery route bringing presents to children across the world. But how did the military get so caught up in celebrating Christmas? With the raw power of nuclear weapons shown to the world in the closing months of World War 2, governments across the world became terrified of what missiles could do. The fear of nuclear armageddon became so widespread, school pupils were training about what to do in the case of an attack. Russian and Chinese military aircraft intercepted by NORAD jets Off Alaskan coast amid WW3 tensions Chilling warning the threat from Vladimir Putin's Russia will 'endure beyond the end of Ukraine war' It began when President Eisenhower gave the green light for a press release that offered "Christmas Guidance" to journalists covering the war. According to this release, Santa Claus was appointed as the head of a new North Pole Command. Alongside him, a team of gnomes worked tirelessly, their specific locations withheld for secrecy. The communication suggested that Saint Nick's ability to visit every child's home in one night was achieved through undisclosed "secret devices" and "special scientific techniques." Despite the aim of promoting Eisenhower's management of the wartime situation, it resonated well with the public. As World War II worries faded, the Cold War brought new fears and seizing an opportunity to highlight its vigilance, the US Air Force, broadcasted a cheerful message on Christmas Eve 1948. They claimed their "early warning radar net to the north" had picked up something extraordinary - an unidentified sleigh pulled by eight reindeer. The ground was set for the annual Santa tracker to be born. According to the slightly-fairytale story, it began with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper. Cold War fears led to money being poured into missile defence systems and in the US the setting up of the Air Defense Command which later merged with the Royal Canadian Air Force's Air Defence Command to create NORAD. Its primary mission has always been to monitor and defend North American airspace from potential threats, including airborne attacks and missile launches. Based in Colorado Springs, NORAD uses radar, satellites, and fighter jets to track and intercept objects in the sky. And once a year this is focused on Santa Claus. NORAD's predecessor was the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) and it was there in 1955, the tradition of tracking Santa began. On December 24, 1955, a Sears Roebuck & Co. store in Colorado Springs ran an advertisement in the local newspaper with a phone number for children to call Santa Claus. The story goes that the phone number was misprinted by one digit, and instead of reaching Santa’s workshop, it directed calls to the CONAD base. Colonel Harry Shoup, who was working at CONAD that night, answered the phone to hear a child excitedly asking to speak to Santa. Deciding to have some fun with it, Shoup and some other radar operatives began tracking Santa’s movements using military radar, reassuring children that Santa was indeed on his way. Over the course of that evening, more and more children called, and Shoup’s team continued to provide updates on Santa's journey across the globe. As sweet as the story is, a lot of the story is hard to verify. Either way the tradition was leaped on by the military's PR machine and it became a yearly thing. It was a happy reminder of the US' military capability and ability to defend itself from its many enemies abroad. In 1956, CONAD was asked by the USA’s National Press and United Press International if they would track Santa again and Shoup agreed. NORAD took over the responsibility in 1958, and the Santa hotline has run since. But the close connections with the military haven't always been embraced. In 2013, a children's advocacy group said an animated video on the NORAD Tracks Santa website showing fighter jets escorting Santa around the globe, encouraged militarism. A spokesperson for NORAD insisted the fighters in the video were unarmed Canadian Air Force CF-18s, with a large external fuel tank under the belly that might look like a bomb.