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LOS, or Los, or LoS may refer to:

Science, technology, medicine, and biology[link]

• PZL.37 Łoś, a Polish bomber aircraft
• Los, a small crater on Mars
• LOS =
  • Length of stay, a measure used by hospitals and other health care facilities that treat patients
  • Loss of significance
• Lipooligosaccharide, a shorter form of lipopolysaccharide
• Lower oesophageal sphincter
• Line-of-sight propagation, electro-magnetic waves travelling in a straight line
• Loss of Signal, see fading

Games and sports[link]

• Line of sight (gaming), visibility on the playing field
• Line of Scrimmage, in football
• A North Carolina based ultimate frisbee team

Television, film, video games, music, and books[link]

• Los (Blake), a character in William Blake's poetry
• Los, or the Crimson King, a character in Stephen King's novels
• Los (band)
• Los, the Twelfth stage of Gaiapolis.
• Los (rapper)
• Los, a song from the Rammstein album Reise, Reise

Places[link]

• Los, Sweden
• Łoś, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
• Land of Smiles, nickname for Thailand
• Lucas Oil Stadium, a stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, and the home of the Indianapolis Colts
• Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, Nigeria

Business[link]

• Length of stay, a hospital-management parameter
• Level of service, a measure of the quality of transportation
• Loan Origination System, a computer system or application for Loan origination

People[link]

• Jerzy Łoś (1920–1998), Polish mathematician and logician

Other uses[link]

• Law of the Sea
• LOS is a common internal abbreviation of The London Oratory School
• League of the South, a neo-Confederate group

See also[link]

• Lost (disambiguation)

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Gigantism
Classification and external resources
Robert Wadlow, the tallest man known to have lived (8 ft 11 in) with his father, Harold Wadlow (5 ft 11 1/2 in)
ICD-10	E22.0, E34.4
ICD-9	253.0
DiseasesDB	30730
MedlinePlus	001174
MeSH	D005877

Gigantism, also known as giantism (from Greek γίγας gigas, "giant", plural γίγαντες gigantes), is a condition characterized by excessive growth and height significantly above average. In humans, this condition is caused by over-production of growth hormone^[1] in childhood before the long bone epiphyses closes resulting in persons between 7 feet (2.13 m) and 9 feet (2.74 m) in height.

Terminology[link]

The term is typically applied to those whose height is not just in the upper 1% of the population but several standard deviations above mean for persons of the same sex, age, and ethnic ancestry. The term is seldom applied to those who are simply "tall" or "above average" whose heights appear to be the healthy result of normal genetics and nutrition. Gigantism is usually caused by a tumor on the pituitary gland of the brain. It causes growth of the hands, face, and feet.^[2] In some cases the condition can be passed on genetically through a mutated gene.^[3]

Other names somewhat obsolete for this pathology are (Greek: hyper over the normal level; soma body) and somatomegaly (Greek; soma body, genitive somatos of the body; megas, gen. megalou great). In the past, while many of them were social outcasts because of their height, some (usually unintentionally) found employment in Friedrich Wilhelm I's famous Potsdam Giants regiment.

Many of those who have been identified with gigantism have suffered from multiple health problems involving their circulatory or skeletal system.

In history, art and literature[link]

Height discrimination may affect very tall people. The phenomena of gigantism existed all along history, with some nations and tribes taller than others.

Giant people[link]

The giants of Crete are listed in various historic sources, beginning with Titan, a Greek mythological giant, and including Gigantus, after whom giants and gigantism are named.^[4] Rhodes is another island where giants were said to have lived, with the Colossus of Rhodes a giant statue of a giant patron god Helios. In Asterix at the Olympic Games (published to coincide with the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City), René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo depict a 'Colossal' Olympic player from Rhodes, whose family are all extremely tall. In Asterix in Normandy they meet giant Vikings who have a giant dog looking down at Dogmatix.

In modern literature and movies giants are depicted as initially feared but when met are seen as friendly:

In Roald Dahl's The BFG (Big Friendly Giant), most giants are scary except the BFG.

In The Princess Bride, Fezzik (played by André the Giant) is a giant on the brute squad, but turns out to be very gentle. In a a tribute to Andre^[5] posted on YouTube, he is quoted as saying that he enjoyed being on the film's set because outside it "Nobody looks at me."

In the film Big Fish (2003), Matthew McGrory plays Karl, a gentle giant, who is feared by the city and forced to eat people in order to save himself from starvation.

See also[link]

• Acromegaly
• Deep-sea gigantism
• Dwarfism
• Giant of Castelnau
• Growth hormone
• Homo Heidelbergensis
• Island gigantism
• List of humans with gigantism
• List of tallest people
• Local gigantism
• Marfan Syndrome
• Megafauna
• Nephilim
• Overgrowth syndrome

References[link]

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External links[link]

• Acromegaly and Gigantism article
• Brief overview of overgrowth syndromes in childhoodPDF (2.95 MB)

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Alpa Gun
Birth name	Alper Sendilmen
Born	(1980-07-04) July 4, 1980 (age 31) Berlin, Germany
Origin	Turkey
Genres	Hip-Hop, Gangsta Rap
Labels	Sektenmuzik
Associated acts	Sido, B-Tight, Fler, Die Sekte, Ceza

Alper Sendilmen (born 4 July 1980) is a German rapper with Turkish origin, better known as Alpa Gun. In 2004 he got signed to Berlin label Sektenmuzik and since then a member of rap group Die Sekte.^[1]

Biography[link]

At the beginning of his musical career, formed Sendilmen together with friends the group AK. When rapper Sido discovered him, the members of AK signed their first label contract.

It came to disputes between Sendilmen and the other members of AK, thus the group disbanded. Sendilmen signed to Sektenmuzik, where he worked together with other artists on Sampler 1. He joined rap group Die Sekte and had mainly contacts with Aggro Berlin and Bass Sultan Hengzt.

He became a good friend of Sido and repeatedly thanks him in songs and interviews for supporting him and taking him away from his criminal street life.

On the Aggro Berlin sampler Aggro Ansage Nr. 5, was he featured with a solo track titled "Alpa für Westberlin".

On May 1, 2007 presented Sendilmen on MTV Germany his first video "Ausländer", reaching place 5 of the Most Wanted charts in the Total Request Live series. The single of this song was released May 25 over Sektenmuzik. On the same day released his debut album Geladen und Entsichert.

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

Extended plays[link]

Singles[link]

Free tracks[link]

• ¹ The title actually means Stop with that nonsense in German, but the word "U(n)fuk" is a wordplay of "Unfuk" (meaning Nonsense) and the name Ufuk.

References[link]

External links[link]

• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpa_Gun

Fabio Ferzan Cataldi (born 14 August 1981) better known by his stage name Bass Sultan Hengzt is a German rapper of Italian and Turkish descent.

Career[link]

2001-2002: Early career[link]

Since 2001, he was signed with I Luv Money Records as a member of the underground rap group Berlins Most Wanted (BMW) in which he worked together with Bushido and King Orgasmus One.

[edit] 2003-2004: Rap braucht kein Abitur

2003 he released his first solo album Rap braucht kein Abitur, 2004 he released the album Bezirk zu Bezirk with MC Bogy. In 2004, signed Hengzt to Bushido's label ersguterjunge, where he released his second album Rap braucht noch immer kein Abitur. But after disputes with Bushio he left the label.

[edit] 2005-2006: Tour and Berliner Schnauze

After leaving ersguterjunge, the rapper had more contact with the Aggro Berlin artists. He featured Fler and Sido on his third solo album Berliner Schnauze. Hengzt was also featured on the Aggro Ansage Nr. 5-sampler. The song "Schlampe" ("Slut") with Fler, was banned.

In February 2006 on the Germany-tour of Bloodhound Gang, Hengzt was in a front band alongside rappers Automatikk, Mr. Long and Frauenarzt. His third album Berliner Schnauze released at the beginning of 2006 over the label Amstaff-Murderbass. An extra, for this point founding cooperation of Amstaff Muzx and Murderbass, the production factory of DJ Ilan. The singles of the album were "Berliner Schnautze" and "Millionär".

The album is more personal than his latest album and he worked together with Afrob and J-Luv. Bass Sultan Hengzt also featured his colleagues Sido, Fler, Godsilla, his label colleagues Automatikk, King Orgasmus, Bossbitch Berlin and DJ Devin. The album was produced by DJ Ilan. Also Beathoavenz, Paul NZA, Killian, DJ Desue and DJ Rocky joined the production.

June 2006 Hengzt and his crew were front band of 50 Cent's Germany tour.

On August 28 was he as co-moderator in the MTV-Show Urban TRL as guest. The rapper had reached two weeks before place #1 in the TRL Most Wanted.

[edit] 2007: Der Schmetterlingseffekt

His fourth album Der Schmetterlingeffekt ("Butterfly effect") was released 14 September. The only single was: "Schmetterlingseffekt". The album contains feaatures done by Automatikk, King Orgasmus, Sido and Xavier Naidoo.

Controversy[link]

Feud with Bushido[link]

After the release of Rap braucht immer noch kein Abitur left Bass Sultan Hengzt with DJ Ilan label ersguterjunge after disputing with Bushido. Hengzt released a track called "Fick Bushido", dissing and blaming Bushido, for been kicked out because he won't someelse to be successful on his own. Later released Bushido his answer called "H.E.N.G.Z.T" over Bobba's song "Mauvais Garçon".^[1][2]

Discography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bass_Sultan_Hengzt