Look up los, Los, -los, or Łoś in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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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Yung Berg
Yung Berg in Chicago, Illinois
Background information
Birth name	Christian Ward
Born	(1986-09-09) September 9, 1986 (age 25) Chicago, Illinois, United States
Genres	Hip hop
Occupations	Rapper, Singer, Songwriter, Producer
Years active	2001 - present
Labels	E1, Epic, Koch
Website	www.myspace.com/yungberg

Christian Ward (born September 9, 1986), better known by his stage name Yung Berg, is an American rapper from Chicago. He is of African American and Puerto Rican descent. His first single was "Sexy Lady" which features R&B singer Junior. Yung Berg had been previously signed to DMX's Bloodline Records as Ice Berg. He is featured on the Exit Wounds soundtrack. His debut album Look What You Made Me was released in 2008.^[1]

Career[link]

In 2001, he was signed to DMX's Bloodline Records. He made his debut on the Exit Wounds soundtrack on the song "Dog 4 Life" as Iceberg. However, his parents sent him to a military boarding school in Montana in 2001.^[2] He moved to Los Angeles after finishing school in 2003.^[2][3] In 2005, Yung Berg worked as a hypeman and recording assistant for Disturbing tha Peace member and Chicago rapper Shawnna. Later that year, he founded his Yung Boss imprint and production team Yung Bosses. Berg's debut single "Sexy Lady, which featured R&B singer Junior, became a hit on Los Angeles urban radio, and he signed with Epic Records among many labels that approached him. Berg's six-track EP Almost Famous: The Sexy Lady EP was released in July 2007. "Sexy Lady" peaked at #18 on the Billboard 100. In 2008, Berg released another single "Sexy Can I", a collaboration with singer Ray J, then his debut album Look What You Made Me.^[2] The second single was "Do That There", featuring Dude 'n' Nem, followed by "The Business", featuring Casha, which peaked at #33 on the Hot 100.^[4]

Yung Berg insulted Miami rapper Brisco on a video podcast and got beat up by R.Bruce.^[5] After singer Ne-Yo accused Berg of copying auto-tune vocal style from T-Pain and Lil Wayne, Berg posted a video blog criticizing Ne-Yo.^[6]

In December 2008, Berg began casting "exceptionally stand out beautiful dark skin/brown skin women to showcase beauty of all races" for a potential dating reality show that he would host.^[7] However, as evidenced by the trailer for his new TV Show, titled "Back In Business", it will not be a dating show.^[8][9]

In September 2009, was released his song "Baby I'm Back" featuring Jhene Aiko.^[10] He also appeared in the music video of singer Kat DeLuna's debut single "Whine Up." Yung Berg announced in an interview on Playboy Radio July 1, 2010 that the Last Train to Paris album by Diddy would feature songs they co-wrote and produced.^[11]

Discography[link]

Studio albums

• 2008: Look What You Made Me

Mixtapes

• 2009: Back 2 Business
• 2009: Back 2 Business Vol.2
• 2010: The Show, The Afterparty & The Hotel
• 2010: Ground Work
• 2011: The Love Project
• 2011: Mr. Ward
• 2011: Mo Money, Mo Condoms
• 2011: Reality Check
• 2012: Chicago Redemption

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site

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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]

The reports of gigantism exist throughout 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 and the Normans 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)