Steve Relis, Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Relis has extensive experience working with many clients in various industries including high tech, real estate, construction, manufacturing and professional services. Prior to joining the firm he was the Chief Accounting Officer of Gilat Latin America, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd (NASDAQ – GILTF). He also served as the Chief Accounting Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer of Ursus Telecom Corporation (NASDAQ – UTCC). He was an audit manager with Deloitte and Touche in New York and Ernst & Young in Miami. At Ernst & Young he was part of the entrepreneurial services group, which specializes in supporting the needs of aggressive growth companies.

Mr. Relis received a B.S. in Business from Long Island University in 1985 and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the States of Florida and New York. He is a member of the American, Florida and New York Institutes of Certified Public Accounting.

Dr. Michael Hall

Michael J Hall, MD, MSc, PA, a diplomate of the American Board of Family Practice, has been practicing medicine around the world for fifteen years. He has had extensive training in the field ophthalmology from Weill Cornell Medical College-The New York Presbyterian Hospital and internal medicine from University of Missouri-Kansas City. He has completed a Master’s program at the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at New York University and is committed to being a health care leader by improving the American health care system. Through the Hall Longevity Clinic, a national company, Dr. Hall has developed a program to help his patients live longer and more enlightened. He is an international expert on anti-aging and longevity medicine.

During his quest for knowledge, Dr. Hall had the opportunity to work and live throughout both the North and South islands of New Zealand and assisted with the global tsunami relief effort in eastern Sri Lanka by founding a medical mission in Batticaloa. Presently, he resides in Miami Beach, Florida and enjoys cooking, writing while exploring the world. Dr. Hall is a published author and has written a book about the essence of living each day with moral consciousness, entitled, “The American Gentleman, A Contemporary Guide to Chivalry.”

What is a normal body temperature?

The normal body temperature for an adult is 98.6°F (37°C) and it varies by person, age, activity, and time of day. Adults have a fever if their body temperature is 99 – 99.5 °F (37.2 – 37.5 °C). If your temperature is 100.4 °F or greater you probably have an infection or illness. Temperature commonly rises in the evening. Women’s body temperature rises during the second part of their menstrual cycle. Your temperature can also increase when doing physical activity, eating, taking medication, wearing heavy clothing, stress, etc. You’ll not get brain damage unless your temperature is above 107.6 °F (42 °C). The temperature under your tongue and arm it’s usually lower than the rectal one. A normal rectal temperature should be 37degrees. Rectal temperature it’s usually one degree higher than your extremities so you need to subtract one degree from your temperature reading in order to get an accurate temperature reading.

The normal body temperature for a baby is 96.8°F to 98.6°F (36°C to 37°C).  100.4°F to 101.3°F it’s considered fever. Children have a different body temperature, 96.8-98.24°F. 100.4°F or higher is considered fever.

What is temperature?

Sensations of warmth or coldness we feel help us to define temperature. Temperature is used to measure coolness and warmth. When holding an item we feel the vibration within. That happens because the atoms within vibrate.  Scientist used to think temperature and heat were one and the same but it’s not so.  Temperature is the energy contained within bodies and heat relates to the exchange of energy between systems.   Temperature relates to the motion (kinetic) energy. It only measures part of the internal (kinetic) energy though. When an object with high temperature gets in contact with an object with low temperature their temperatures approach the same average kinetic energy since the object with more temperature transfer energy into the object with less until they both have more or less the same temperature. That process is called heat transfer.