System, method and apparatus having the capability of using various authentication mechanisms to share a first party’s personal information stored in a server computer connected to the Internet with a second party. The image processing device includes a first and a second image processing module, and a connection module that is connected to the first and second image processing modules, and moves the image data from one image processing module to the other image processing module. The free base-Schiff base mixture is converted to amphotericin B methyl ester hydrochloride or some other salt form, by using tetrahydrofuran-water to dissolve the mixture for acid treatment to obtain the salt. A winch has a winch cable that extends from a winch drum, over a cable guide pulley journaled on the mast, and has a free cable end attached to the slider assembly. In the method of fusion splicing, optical fibers are heat-melted with the heating amount that is determined using test fibers in advance, or determined using the optical fibers to be fusion spliced. The system further includes the portable activity monitoring device including a housing having a physical size and shape that is adapted to couple to the user’s body, a sensor to generate sensor data, and communication circuitry to receive physiologic data which is based on the user weight data, and processing circuitry to calculate activity data using the sensor data and physiologic data.