text: The Word of God tells us in Mark 5 that when Jesus crossed over the Sea of Galilee to the country of the Gadarenes, a man possessed with an unclean spirit came out of a tomb. He also had a legion of demons. This unclean spirit caused the man to become unclean. It caused him to tear off his clothes, wander around naked, and cut himself with stones. This is an illustration, no doubt, of an evil spirit in connection with the sexual appetite of man. This fellow was a sadist. When an unclean spirit controls a person or embodies him, it makes him unclean. A lying spirit makes a liar out of a person. In addition to these spirits finding embodiment in man, they sometimes attack people physically. That doesn’t mean the person is demon possessed, but it means his body is oppressed by that spirit.
  
  Can the cleaning industry really become a more environmentally friendly industry and remain at the forefront of the “green” revolution? Or is it already there? The answer lay somewhere in between, if the truth is told.
  There have been huge inroads within the cleaning industry to making its products and services greener and environment friendly. This is a costly and daunting job, given the size of the cleaning industry. However, it is a necessary one and companies that do not produce or use enough eco-friendly products, will eventually fall by the wayside in comparison to those who have invested their energies into manufacturing or using greener, safer products.
  The big debate though, isn’t whether the cleaning industry is on the right path, but whether these green products are as effective and cost efficient as the older, perhaps less eco-friendly ones. This very issue is where most of the time and effort has been expended by the large cleaning companies. To have a greener product is one thing. But if the results you get with that product are less effective and more costly, such as deep cleaning, then its popularity will be compromised. The public will still only go so far when offered greener products. They also want to see results too, and only then will they spend their money.
  The case for greener cleaning products could not be stronger. Everyone affected is safer as a result: the person using the product, the inhabitants of the surrounding area and the environment as a whole. Such is the increases of technology and money invested in this area of the industry that there are green products out there on the market which outstrip more traditional cleaning products in terms of performance. Maybe twenty or thirty years ago, this would not have been the case, but gradually in time, the eco-friendly versions have caught up and can now be seen as a direct competitor to the less greener alternatives.
  This is all well and good, but the problems start to arise when established restoration technicians and traditional project cleaners prefer to use the products that they know. There is an element that believes green products cannot handle the more heavy duty deep cleaning and so is tackled with the more traditional, but less healthy options. This is a common misconception, particularly within the restoration segment of the cleaning industry, where products need to be strong as a necessity. This is a mind-set that will take time to filter down through the entire cleaning industry, and hopefully will supersede the more traditional products.
  
  The last of the Dambusters has spoken for the first time how he celebrated the squadron’s heroic raid – with a nice cup of tea.
  I’m happy to say that there are three Dambusters still with us: George ‘Johnny’ Johnson in England, Les Munro in New Zealand and Fred Sutherland in Canada. George Johnson has told his story a number of times.
  Almost 70 years after the night-time bombing attacks, Squadron Leader George ‘Johnny’ Johnson, 91, told of the daring raid over occupied territory that dealt a decisive blow that crippled the Nazi war effort.
  George was festooned with a raft of medals including a Distinguished Flying Medal for his part in 617 Squadron’s daring 1943 blitz on the Nazi-controlled dams along the Ruhr Valley in Germany, destroying their hydro-electric source of power.
  George’s ‘raft of medals’ are for his war service as a whole. He was awarded the DFM for his part in the attack on the Sorpe Dam. The concept of any one airman getting more than one decoration for a single operation is ridiculous. It did occasionally happen that an airman got more than one decoration for an operation, but it was very rare (see comment below).
  Widower George, who lives in Bristol, was a sergeant at the time of the raids, conducted under the name Operation Chastise, which smashed the Mohne, Sorpe and Eder dams.
  ‘We took off at 22.01, and flew in over Sorpe dam in brilliant moonlight. We had to get the aim right – we went in six or seven times and I’d shout ‘Dummy Run’.
  ‘It was a totally different dam from the other dams. It was impossible to fly low over, so it had to be a drop, not a spinning bomb.’
  Piloted by Joe McCarthy, the plane nicknamed ‘T for Tommy’ was one of five planes that made it to the dam, which was the most difficult of the three targets to crack.
  Three aircraft made it to the Sorpe Dam. Only two aircraft bombed the Sorpe Dam (see comment below). T for Tommy was not a nickname for the aircraft piloted by Joe McCarthy. It was its call sign.
  It took bombardier George and his crew nine attempts to fly at a perilous 30ft, before the bomb, codenamed Upkeep, was finally loosed, seconds before they had to pull up to avoid smashing into the hillside behind the dam.
  Bombardier is an American term for what the RAF called ‘air bombers’ early in the war. By 1943 they were usually referred to as ‘bomb aimers’.