On Weds, 19-May-2004, a "tree of life" memorial for NYS emergency medical personnel who died in the line of duty was unveiled in Albany, NY.

The service was about 45 minutes long and included comments by Governor Pataki, NYS DOH Commissioner Dr. Novello, and some key legislative and other supportive folk.

I've digitized the video I took and placed it on the webserver. It's available as a complete 45 minute file and some of the key speakers are in stand-alone (roughly) five minute segments.
Please note that these video clips are (c) 2004 by the photographer, namely me, but I'm quite lenient and accomodating to polite requests.

at this point the speeches by Gov. Pataki, Dr. Novello, Senate Majority Leader Bruno, Assembly Speaker Silver, and NYS EMS Council chair William Darby are available as standalone clips.

The videos are in Apple "QuickTime" format, using various compression tradeoffs between size and quality.
The smallest video file of the complete presentation is about 40 megs (remember, this is a 45 minute clip) and will take about 3 hours to download; the middle quality is about 70 megs and will take about four hours, and the largest one is 275 megs and will take a very, very, long time...

PLEASE NOTE that many older or less capable computers will have trouble with files of this size

Of course, on a high speed connection, things will go much faster.

To watch the video(s), you may need a copy of the QuickTime viewer. It's available as a free download from Apple, for both Macs and a bunch of secondary operating systems, by clicking : here

for the standalone clips of Mr. William Darby, about five minutes:

To view the smallest video (4 megs), click: here

To view the mid quality video (7 megs), click: here

To view the best quality video (35 megs), click: here

(note: the best quality Darby clip is on a separate server, encoded differently, and may not be compatable with older browsers and operating systems).

for the standalone clips of Senate Majority Leader Bruno, about five minutes:

To view the smallest video (2 megs), click: here

To view the mid quality video (3.5 megs), click: here

To view the best quality video, click: here

(note: the best quality Bruno clip is on a separate server, encoded differently, and may not be compatable with older browsers and operating systems).

for the standalone clips of Assembly Speaker Silver, about five minutes:

To view the smallest video (3 megs), click: here

To view the mid quality video (5 megs), click: here

To view the best quality video (21 megs), click: here

(note: the best quality Silver clip is on a separate server, encoded differently, and may not be compatable with older browsers and operating systems).

for the standalone clips of Dr. Novello, about five minutes:

To view the smallest video (3.5megs), click: here

To view the mid quality video (7 megs), click: here

To view the best quality video (27 megs), click: here

(note: the best quality Novello clip is on a separate server, encoded differently, and may not be compatable with older browsers and operating systems).

for the standalone clips of Governor Pataki, about eight minutes:

To view the smallest video (5.5 megs), click: here

To view the mid quality video (10 megs), click: here

To view the best quality video (42 megs), click: here

(note: the best quality Pataki clip is on a separate server, encoded differently, and may not be compatable with older browsers and operating systems).

For the complete presentation (about 45 minutes, and very big files), please choose one of the following :

To view the smallest video (37 megs), click: here

To view the mid quality video (73 megs), click: here

The best quality video (275megs) is actually residing on a separate server, and the video coding may not work with older browsers. To see it (and remember, it's 275 megs), click: here

If you'd like to send me a message, especially regarding getting original quality dupes, or for redistribution, please click: here