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Thursday, March 9, 2006 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER www.philly.com B9 Weather Report Conditions updated throughout the day on www.philly.com Today's Forecast The warming trend will continue today as a warm front moves through. As winds become more southwesterly tomorrow, temperatures should climb to near 70. A weak cold front will bring temperatures down a bit Saturday, but more warm air will return early next week. Exclusive EarthWatch 7-Day Forecast The EarthWatch Weather Team: Dave Warren, Amy Freeze, Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz, Bill Henley and Doug Kammerer. Today Tomorrow Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday HIGH" 'ow HIGHLOW HIGHUW LOW HIGHLOW HIGH mM LOW 56 37 70 43 64 46 68 50 72 50 72 42 52 30 Early clouds and Partly sunny and Mostly sunny Partly sunny Partly sunny Mostly cloudy and Mostly sunny, possible showers, quite warm with a and pleasant and warm with a and warm with a warm with showers windy and colder then some sunshine possible shower possible shower possible shower and thunderstorms Today's Highs and Tonight's Lows Scranton 4842 HJI Sun rises 6:22 a.m., sets 6:01 p.m.

OUnIVIOOn Moon rises 12:52 p.m., sets 3:54 a.m. National Forecast sunny; pc partly cloudy; cloudy; sh showers; t-storms; rain; rs rainsnow; sf flurries; sn snow; i ice New York 5348 Allentown 4944 Reading 5144 Trenton 5145 Full Last New First Mar. 14 Mar. 22 Mar. 29 April 5 Harrisburg 5247 Asbury Park 5243 Air Quality Lancaster 5247 Philadelphia The worst pollutant in the region yesterday was particulates, produced mainly by motor vehicles and power plants.

5637 WilmingtonQ 5447 Carbon monoxide Nitrogen dioxide Particulates PA Sulfur dioxide SO Ozone OZ Good (G) 0-50 Moderate (M) 51-100 Unhealthful (U) 101-200 Very Unhealthful (V) Hazardous (H) 301-400 Atlantic Ocean Vineland 5443 Baltimore 6146 At a Pollution Standard Index rating of 100, the general population begins to experience irritation and other unhealthful effects. Atlantic City 5142 Water Temp 39 Vancouver Weather at noon today 4434 an( forecast highlow temperatures Seattle a a a Montreal 4333 CANADA Portland Billings 4736 4223 Minneapolis Toronto Boston 4230 4639 4341 Detroit New York San Francisco 5846 5348 5742 Chicago 5036 Pittsburgh Philadelphia Denver ct Louis 6449 Washington Los Angeles 4727 6343 6249 6048 Memphis Low Phoenix DaHas 7147 Atlanta Fronts: High 7149 7348. 7151 mgn Stationary Rain Houston Ram 8254 New Orleans Warm Thunderstorms 7361 I Miami Snow Ice Mexico 7966 Cold City Yesterday Today Tomorrow City Yesterday Today Tomorrow Albany, N.Y 421 5pc 4642rs 5739sh Kansas City, Mo. 7954A 5736sh 6545pc Albuquerque 5241pc 5433pc 5634pc LasWigas 6148s 6544pc 5738c Anchorage 291 0sf 228s 221 2s Los Angeles 6550pc 6048pc 5845sh Atlanta 6641s 7151pc 7356sh Memphis 7453c 7147A 7157pc Boston 3827pc 4341sh 5941sh Miami 7358s 7966s 8270pc Buffalo 4321c 5452sh 5339sh Minneapolis 4233c 4230pc 4335pc Charleston, S.C. 6533s 7458pc 7758t New Orleans 7857pc 7861A 7967pc Charlotte 6331pc 7151pc 7052sh Orlando 7546s 8259s 8463pc Chicago 5339A 5036A 5040pc Phoenk 6851pc 7149pc 6652pc Cincinnati 5033sh 6646A 5647pc Portland, Maine 4321s 3934c 4833sh Cleveland 4529c 6044A 5339pc Portland, Ore.

4640r 4736sh 4732sh Dallas 7467c 7348pc 7854pc Richmond 5928pc 7052pc 7547sh Denver 4430sn 4727pc 3624pc a Louis 6346A 6343A 6350pc Des Moines 4530A 4730pc 5441pc Salt Lake City 4431c 3825rs 3623sn Detroit 4933c 5846A 5033pc San Diego 6256s 6352pc 5849sh Honolulu 8368pc 8270sh 8169sh San Francisco 5641pc 5742sh 5243sh Houston 8066pc 8254s 7964s San Juan 8573pc 8471pc 8373s Indianapolis 4737A 6343A 5546pc Seattle 4237r 4333sh 4432sh Jacksonville 6936s 8157s 8158pc Tampa 7448s 7762s 8163pc Dover 5645 Cape May 5344 Washington 6249 Yesterday's High Pollution Pollution Pollutant Forecast Standard Index Yesterday Today Bristol G22 OZ Burlington G23 OZ Camden G25 OZ Chester G26 OZ Norristown G29 OZ Philadelphia G30 PA Trenton G20 OZ Wilmington G10 OZ Ozone forecast available daily at 1-800-872-7261 and at www.dvrpc.org. Pollen and mold spore data counts have ended. Counts will resume sometime this month. Regional Forecast Poconos Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. High 44.

A chance of showers tonight. Low 39. Mostly cloudy and milder with a chance of showers tomorrow. High 56. Jersey Shore Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers north.

High 50. Partly to mostly cloudy with a chance of showers tonight. Low 42. Partly to mostly cloudy and milder with a chance of showers tomorrow. High 56.

Delaware Partly sunny and mild. High 56. A chance of showers late tonight. Low 45. Milder with a chance of showers tomorrow.

High 65. In the Region Weather indications sunny; pc partly cloudy; cloudy; sh showers; thunderstorms; Cities Abroad Marine Forecast Manasquan to Cape Henlopen Mostly cloudy, chance of showers north today. Wind south at 1 0-20 knots. Visibility 1-3 miles. Waves 3-5 feet.

Delaware Bay Partly to mostly cloudy and milder today. Wind south at 10-15 knots. Visibility 3-6 miles. Waves 1-2 feet. Cape Henlopen to Virginia Beach Partly cloudy skies and milder today.

Wind southwest at 10-15 knots. Visibility 5-8 miles. Waves 3-4 feet. Tides Today Philadelphia (Chestnut St.) High tide 9:22 a.m., 9:55 p.m. Low tide 3:28 a.m., 4:19 p.m.

Delaware Breakwater High tide 4:43 a.m., 5:17 p.m. Low tide 11:13 a.m., 10:59 p.m. Cape May High tide 4:02 a.m., 4:37 p.m. Low tide 10:25 a.m., 10:12 p.m. Atlantic City (Steel Pier) High tide 3:28 a.m., 4:03 p.m.

Low tide 10:04 a.m., 9:51 p.m. Beach Haven (Little Egg Harbor) High tide 5:32 a.m., 6:12 p.m. Low tide 12:10 a.m., 1 :1 1 p.m. Barnegat Inlet High tide 3:16 a.m., 3:56 p.m. Low tide 10:18 a.m., 10:14 p.m.

SOURCE: www.asthmacenter.com Philadelphia Almanac Readings taken through 5:00 p.m. Temperatures High yesterday 50 (3:32 p.m.) Record high for yesterday 80 (2000) 3 p.m. humidity 20 Low yesterday 29 (6:42 a.m.) Record low for yesterday 12 (1986) Normal highlow 4833 Season heating degree days 3,416 Last season heating degree days 3,682 Normal season heating degree days 3,797 Yesterday's barometer 6 a.m 30.21 rising Noon 30.14 falling 6 p.m 30.04 steady Daylight sky conditions yesterday 40 clouds with 60 sunshine Precipitation Wednesday 0.00 in. Month through Wednesday 0.19 in. Year through Wednesday 6.04 in.

Normal through Wednesday 7.18 in. Deficit in. City Yesterday Today Tomorrow City Yesterday Today Tomorrow Acapulco 8670pc 8671pc 8770s Madnd 6837s 5736pc 5235sh Amsterdam 4536r 4635sh 4127c Melbourne 7557s 7558pc 7154pc Athens 45nas 5644pc 5340pc Mexico City 7941pc 8046s 8145s Auckland 7563sh 7561pc 7660pc Milan 5236s 5140c 4839sh Bangkok 9579r 9778A 9876A Montreal 281 2s 3734c 4830sh Baitados 8677pc 8776pc 8676A Moscow 255s 216pc 229pc Beijing 5234s 6037pc 4735pc Nassau 7364pc 8061s 7863s Berlin 3721s 3726rs 3321c New Delhi 9357s 8761A 8458A Bermuda 6357pc 6952pc 6856pc Paris 5539r 5038sh 4634sh Brussels 5036r 4736pc 4533sh Prague 361 9sn 3928rs 3725rs Buenos Aires 7964s 8060s 7755s Rio de Janeiro 8778pc 8776A 8675A Cairo 6657s 6345pc 6544pc Rome 5234s 5241pc 5037sh Copenhagen 3218s 3422pc 3119pc Seoul 5133pc 4534pc 4839c Dublin 5443c 4534sh 4231pc Singapore 9177s 8976A 8877A Havana 7948c 8065s 7966s Stockholm 279s 2412pc 251 1pc Hong Kong 7566s 7663pc 7865s Sydney 7770s 7862pc 7556pc Jerusalem 7252s 6746sh 6545pc Tokyo 6643c 5242pc 6250r Johannesburg 7555s 8162s 8361s Toronto 3723pc 4639sh 5137sh London 5441c 4834c 4433pc Mincouver 4337r 4434sh 4435rs rain; sf snow flurries; sn snow; i ice. City Yesterday Today Tomorrow Allentown 5021 pc 4944sh 6539sh Atlantic City 4922s 5142pc 6242sh Baltimore 5224pc 6146pc 6945sh Harrisburg 4924pc 5247sh 6643sh New York 4929pc 5348sh 6547sh Pittsburgh 4325c 6449sh 6242sh Salisbury, Md. 531 7pc 6249pc 7045pc Scranton 461 6pc 4842sh 5634sh Washington 5232pc 6249pc 6948sh Wilmington 4926pc 5447sh 6743sh Joseph F.

Pizzirusso, professor, inventor FuneralAnnouncements PLEASE VIEW AND SIGN THE ONLINE GUEST BOOK AT PHILLY.COM SWEENEY FRANCIS "JIM" 82, of West Chester, died March 8, 2006. Husband of Elizabeth "Betty" Horn Sweeney. Father of Jim Sweeney, Jr. of Newtown Square, Nancy Harris of West Chester, Gail Sweeney of Norristown, and Bob Sweeney of West Chester. Grandfather of Matthew Harris, Jenny Thurstin and her husband, Branon, and Patrick Sweeney.

Funeral Services at 1 1 A.M. on Sat. March 11, at FOUNDS FUNERAL HOME, High and Union Streets, West Chester, (610) 696-0134; www.foundsfuneralhome.com, where family and friends may call from 10 to 11 A.M. Interment in Arlington Cemetery, Drexel Hill. Memorial contributions to Marine Corps League, 3602 6th Street, Upland, PA 19015; or to Chester County Hospital, 701 E.

Marshall Street, West Chester, PA 19380. County Community College. His daughter said he was fascinated with how things worked and enjoyed home repair and improvement projects as well as gardening and painting. In addition to his wife and daughter, Professor Pizzirusso is survived by another daughter, Lynnore Compton; sons Joseph G. and Douglas; a brother; and five grandchildren.

A Funeral Mass will be said at 11 a.m. today at St. Dorothy Church, 4910 Township Line Drexel Hill. Friends may call from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. at Ruffenach Funeral Home, Township Line and Burmont Roads.

Burial will be in SS. Peter and Paul Cemetery, Mar-pie Township. By Sally A. Downey INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Joseph F. Pizzirusso, 79, of Springfield, Delaware County, a professor of engineering and inventor, died of cancer Saturday at Chester County Hospital.

In 1967, Professor Pizzirusso became an instructor at Pennsylvania Military College now Widen-er University. He retired from Widener in 2004 as a full professor. While teaching, he was also a consultant to corporations including Foamex and Scott Paper and held several patents. In the 1990s, he helped develop an air-filtration system for the Defense Department to prevent sand from clogging the engines of Black Hawk helicopters deployed in deserts. Thirty years earlier, he designed a nuclear submarine heat-exchange unit for the Atomic Energy Commission.

"He was a 'super his daughter Diane Hoover said, but chose teaching over a lucrative full-time engineering career. At Widener he tutored students who were having difficulties with course work; at his grandson's elementary school in Chadds Ford, he volunteered to supervise hands-on science projects; and at schools in Chester he spoke to students about expanding their goals. Professor Pizzirusso grew up in New York. He earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He and his wife, Rose Furnari Pizzirusso, spent their courtship in the New York Public Library while he researched his thesis.

They married in 1952. From 1954 to 1963 he was an associate pro- Joseph F. Pizzirusso, 79, retired from Widener University in 2004. fessor at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York. He had also taught at Pennsylvania State University and Delaware TRAVAGLINI HELEN JOSEPHINE (Varga).

Born on Feb. 8, 1916 in died on March 6, 2006 in Silver Spring MD. Born and raised in Philadelphia. She graduated from Olney High School in 1933. She was married to the late Edmund A.

Travaglini, DDS (also a Phila. Survived by her 3 children, Mark (Dana) Travaglini (Annapolis MD), Carla (Les) Holt and Robert Travaglini (all Silver Spring MD). She also has 4 grandchildren, all living in Maryland, Jackie (Patryk) Cholewczynski, Sam Travaglini, Chrissy and Annie Holt; sister of the late Andrew Varga, Catherine McClain and Elizabeth Varga. Interment will be on Thursday, March 9th, 1 P.M. at Holy Sepulchre Cheltenham, (Phila.) PA.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the Edmund and Helen Travaglini Memorial Scholarship Fund, co Vice President for Advancement, Northland College, Ashland Wl 54806. Contact staff writer Sally A. Downey at 215-854-2913 or sdowneyphillynews.com. Kimmerle C. Milnazik Painter, illustrator, 50 Kimmerle C.

Milnazik, 50, of Wayne, a painter and illustrator, died Friday at Paoli Hospital of complications from hip surgery. As a freelance artist, Ms. Milnazik illustrated promotional material, and commemorative items including a "Wizard of Oz" plate for Knowles China and an Elvis Presley music box. In 1995 she was commissioned to paint Elvira, the lead soprano in Bellini's I Puritani, by the Opera Company of Philadelphia. She loved opera, her brother, William, said.

Her watercolors were exhibited at local galleries, including a show at Immaculata College in 1997 that also included watercolors by her parents, Janet and Robert Milnazik. Her work was often surrealistic and symbolic. The painting for her entry in the World Trade Center Memorial Competition shows a Gothic spire rising from rough stone, topped by an angel releasing a dove. Ms. Milnazik grew up in Strafford and graduated from Cones-toga High School.

She earned a bachelor's degree from Temple University's Tyler School of Art in 1977. For most of her adult life, her brother said, she struggled with anorexia. She was kind and always interested in the lives of her friends and family, he said, but kept her own struggle private. Ms. Milnazik is survived by her parents and brother.

No funeral is scheduled. An exhibit of Ms. Milnazik's art will be shown from 3 to 7 p.m. May 20 at St. Aloysius Academy, 401 S.

Bryn Mawr Bryn Mawr. FuneralAnnouncements PLEASE VIEW AND SIGN THE ONLINE GUEST BOOK AT PHIL1Y.C0M WYNKOOP JAMES F. on Feb. 28, 2006 of Havertown, PA; beloved son of the late Charles and Hattie May King Wynkoop; beloved brother of the late Charles King Wynkoop. Relatives and friends are invited to his Funeral Service Sat.

11 A.M. March 11, 2006 at the Reformation Evangelical Lutheran Church, 102 W. Rose Tree Media, PA 19063. Int. Private.

Contributions in his memory to the Reformation Evangelical Lutheran Church. (O'LEARY FUNERAL HOME Springfield) Van FOSSEN Hawaii and Hyannis, where he piloted a 29-foot Sport-fisherman boat with his feet. In addition to Mr. Volpe, Mr. Burnett is survived by an extended family of cousins.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. today at the Church of the Redeemer, 200 Pennswood Bryn Mawr. Leonard Muldawer Physicist, professor, 85 Leonard Muldawer, 85, physicist and emeritus professor at Temple University, died of respiratory failure Tuesday at Kindred Hospital in ANNE G. (nee Kelly), March 8, 2006, formerly of Upper Darby, PA. Beloved wife of the late Leslie J.

Van Fossen. Devoted mother of Anne M. (Steve) DiSciullo and James M. (Ellen Marie) Van Fossen. Also survived by her grandsons, Steven, Phillip, Jared, 2 great grandchildren, her sisters, Elizabeth Metzler, Margaret Kelly and Jane McCarthy.

Relatives and friends are invited to her Funeral Mass, Sat. 10:30 A.M., Church of St. Alice, Walnut St. and Copley Upper Darby, PA, and to her Viewing, Sat. after 9:30 A.M.

in the Church. Int. SS. Peter and Paul Cem. KELLY FUNERAL HOME, (Upper Darby) In addition to his wife, Dr.

Muldawer is survived by daughters Liz Gallagher and Julia; a son, Richard; stepchildren Maggie Rosenblum and Michael Lane; four grandchildren; and a brother. His former wife also survives. Services will be at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow at Joseph Levine Son, 2811 West Chester Pike, Broomall. Burial will be in Roosevelt Memorial Park, Trevose.

Clearing the Record A Funeral Mass for Anne "Nancy" McGuckin Filicko, 83, whose obituary appeared in yesterday's Inquirer, will be at 11 a.m. today at St. Mary Magdalen Church, 2400 N. Providence Media. Friends may call from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.

at Rigby Harting Hagan Funeral Home, 15 E. Fourth Media. WARREN Livingston E. Burnett A determined friend, 64 Livingston Emory Burnett, 64, of Brigantine, N.J., who was born with cerebral palsy and made friends around the world by operating a ham radio with his feet, died of pneumonia Feb. 23 at Seacrest Village Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Little Egg Harbor Township, N.J.

Mr. Burnett, who was known as Bill, was born in Penn Valley and attended the Matheny School for students with developmental disabilities in Peapack, N.J., until he was a teenager. His parents then retained tutors who taught him at home. When Mr. Burnett's family bought him a ham radio, his teachers helped him learn to operate it with his feet.

When computers became popular, he learned to operate them with his feet, too, and began e-mailing his worldwide circle of friends. He remained in Penn Valley until the death of his parents, W. Emory Burnett and Peyton Jones Burnett. He then moved for a while to Florida, and finally to Brigantine with his friend and caretaker, Alfred Volpe. Mr.

Burnett enjoyed listening to country music and vacationing in pie University. While in Cambridge, studying for a doctorate in physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he faced the physical challenge of learning to swim in the Charles River so he could learn to sail. He was also a member of the hiking club. After graduating in 1948, he bicycled across Scandinavia for eight weeks. He was named a professor of physics and metallurgy at Temple in 1948.

He taught there until 1990. From 1980 until retiring in 2005, Dr. Muldawer also was head of the Chautauqua continuing education program at Temple for science teachers. He married Marcea Rosen in 1950, and the couple raised three children in Bala Cynwyd before divorcing in 1967. Dr.

Muldawer loved classical music. He started singing choral music while in college, a passion that he pursued his entire life. He sang with Singing City and the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, and was a founding member of the Choral Arts Society. "He sang with groups led by Eugene Ormandy to Riccar-do Muti at the Academy of Music," said his wife of 23 years, Patricia, who brought two children to the marriage. RICHARD JAMES, on Feb.

26, 2006, in Florida, age 67, of Cinnaminson N.J. Richard was a retired Electrician. He is survived by his wife Bernice (nee Cusick) of Cinnaminson, dear father of Kristin (Scott) Cardonick and Christopher (Laura) Warren; grandfather of Ryan, Haley, Ben, Jane; dear brother of Barbara (Tom) Divney, Rosemary Warren, Rita (Tom) Duffy. Relatives and friends are invited to call Friday from 9-10 A.M. and to attend the Liturgy of Christian Burial, Friday 10 A.M.

at St. Charles Borromeo Church, Branch Pike, Cinnaminson N.J. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. Arrangements by WEBER FUNERAL HOME, Riverton N.J. Delaware County.

He lived in Wynnewood. Born in South Philadelphia, Dr. Muldawer was stricken with polio when he was a baby. Physical disabilities did not stop him from mental and Leonard Muldawer WELSH The Inquirer wants its news report to be fair and correct in every respect, and regrets when it is not. If you have a question or comment about news coverage, contact editor Amanda Bennett (phone 215-854-2529) or managing editor Anne Gordon (215-854-4682) at The Inquirer, Box 8263, Philadelphia 19101, or e-mail abennettphillynews.com or agordonphillynews.com.

physical achievements. He graduated from South Philadelphia High School in 1938 and earned a bachelor's degree in 1942 and a master's degree in 1944, both in physics from Tern- WILLIAM AUSTIN WELSH of Lima, PA, died on March 8, 2006. Beloved husband of the late Anne Tomlinson Welsh and beloved father of William Welsh Judith Auten, Anne Welsh-Suthers, Kathleen Fox, George Welsh and Richard Harold Welsh. Memorial Service at Middletown Friends Meeting, Middletown Rd, Lima, PA on Sunday, March 12th at 2 P.M..