Crowe appeared as the tobacco firm whistle blower Jeffrey Wigand in the 1999 film The Insider, for which he received five awards as best actor and seven nominations in the same category.

A whistleblower ( whistle-blower or whistle blower ) is a person who tells the public or someone in authority about alleged dishonest or illegal activities ( misconduct ) occurring in a government department or private company or organization.

The narrative constructed jointly by the whistle blower and regulatory agency is one which depicts the whistle-blower as motivated by personal conscience and the organization by defense of the public interest.

The original whistle blower left the company in 2006 and was paid £ 80, 000 after threatening to take his case to an employment tribunal.

The former head of compliance, became a whistle blower by reporting " dodgy practices " but again the authorities did nothing.

" The New York Times reports a whistle blower officially complained about the wrongdoings in the spring of 2006, prior to Kempthorne's being sworn into the office.

Herbert Milton " Herb " Stempel ( born December 19, 1926 ) is a television game show contestant and subsequent whistle blower on the fraudulent nature of the industry, in what became known as the quiz show scandals.

Columnist Margaret Kimberly wrote that Miller " isn't protecting a whistle blower.

She is protecting someone who retaliated against a whistle blower ".

The anti-fraud party Europe Transparent of whistle blower Paul van Buitenen unexpectedly won two seats.

Ameren has 90 days from the date of the report to answer back to the PSC how it will meet the recommendations of the report, which include a whistle blower rule, changes in safety management structure, financial accounting for the rebuild of the upper reservoir, and single point of management for the rebuild.

CTF directors publish annual detailed pre-budget submissions, as well as reports on public issues including health care, tax reform, and " whistle blower " and freedom of information legislation.

If it wasn't for a whistle blower, the fraud may have never been caught.

The whistle blower program seeks information based on evidence and analysis which can provide a solid basis for further investigation rather than speculation and hearsay.

He was buried with a small, gold whistle once part of a charm bracelet he had given to Lauren Bacall before they married.

It was inscribed with a quote from their first movie together: " If you want anything, just whistle.

Their politically tinged music was informed by MacGowan and Stacy's punk backgrounds, yet used traditional Irish instruments such as the tin whistle, cittern, mandolin and accordion.

Upon the 5 a. m. sunrise, reportedly a train whistle was heard ( HIrsch said it was actually a siren ).

Clarke's first whistle, the Meg, was pitched in high A and was later made in other keys suitable for Victorian parlour music.

As the penny whistle was generally considered a toy it has been suggested that children or street musicians were paid a penny by those who heard them playing the whistle.

The name " tin-whistle " was also coined as early as 1825. but neither tin whistle or penny whistle name seems to have been common until the 20th century.

The tin whistle due to its relative cheapness was a popular household instrument and was as ubiquitous as the harmonica.

The Generation whistle was introduced in the first half of the 20th century, and also featured a brass tube with a lead fipple plug.

During the 1960s revival of traditional Irish music the low whistle was " recreated " by Bernard Overton at the request of Finbar Furey.

The low cost of the tin whistle, or jive flute, made it an attractive instrument in the impoverished, apartheid-era townships ; the Hohner tin whistle was especially popular in kwela performance.

Both rattles and whistles were used to call for back-up in areas where neighborhood beats overlapped, and following their success in London, the whistle was adopted by most Police Forces in Great Britain.

With the rise of the motor car, the whistle was no longer usefully audible in urban areas.

The police whistle was used to great comic effect in the 1962 film On The Beat, where Norman Wisdom plays a car park attendant dreaming of wanting to become a policeman, like his dad.

The Queen Mary 2, being 345 metres long, was given the lowest possible frequency ( 70 Hz ) for her regulation whistles which means she carries both 70 Hz modern whistles and a single vintage 55 Hz whistle.

The whistle was first used to stop a sports match by William Atack in a game of rugby in New Zealand in 1884.

The slide whistle ( or swanee whistle ) was a common instrument in some types of music, including being used at times in early Jazz, and was popular as a musical effect in the early days of radio and television.

The term flageolet is still preferred by some modern tin whistle who feel this better describes the instrument, as this characterises a wide variety of fipple flutes, including penny whistles.

The whistle is still used by some police forces today, and engraved ceremonial versions are sometimes presented to police officers upon occasions such as their retirement.

In the Canadian Navy, the so called Bosn ' whistle or Boatswain's call is still in use for ceremonial purpose on board RCN ships.

Di Canio beat the offside trap, while Barthez stood still with his hand up expecting the referee to blow his whistle, or Di Canio to stop.

The usual aftermath of a fumble, at every level of play, is a pile of players, many still squirming diligently despite the whistle, surrounded by teammates pointing upfield ( the hand signal for a first down ) while the officials slowly extricate them in an effort to determine who has won possession.

The clothes and arms they wore are still preserved in the temple to this day, along with the drum and whistle ; the armor was all home-made, as they had not wanted to possibly arouse suspicion by purchasing any.

One in the afternoon or four in the morning, it made no difference ... I can still hear the whistle — two toots for French's, three for Van Camp's — and she and Chizu would be out of bed in the middle of the night, heading for the cannery.

The last thing Webb heard when he jumped was the long, piercing scream of the whistle as Jones tried to warn anyone still in the freight train looming ahead.

Popular legend holds that when his body was pulled from the wreckage of his train near the twisted rail, his hands still clutched the whistle cord and brake.

When the final whistle below at the McCain Stadium, Carlisle were still level with Plymouth Argyle and the Scarborough fans had already invaded the pitch to celebrate " survival ", only for the news to come through within minutes that Carlisle had scored and Scarborough were relegated.

On the new model: the front of the saddle tank is completely smooth ; the smokebox is smaller and raised on a saddle ; the buffer mounting plates, which were square, are now round ; and the whistle has been omitted ( however, it can still be heard ; the sound is shared with Mighty Mac ).

Carmichael is mainly remembered for being the victim of violence in the 1971 tour where he received five fractures of the cheekbone, yet still played until final whistle.

If the ball is alive and the official sounds an inadvertent whistle, then the ball still becomes dead, but the team in possession of the ball may elect to have the down replayed or take the spot where the ball was declared dead.

This whistle is still considered the " king of train whistles ".

Some Great Western " autocoaches "— from where the driver operated the steam engine's regulator and brakes, when the engine was propelling one or more autocoaches — still had a whistle connection with the engine's brake whistle, although a gong ( much like a tram gong ) was fitted at the front of each autocoach and was operated by the driver using a foot treadle.

It is not uncommon for the sound of a train's whistle to propagate for miles ; yet vehicle operators still have a difficult time hearing the warning signal due to the vehicle's soundproofing and ambient noise within the cab ( such as engine, road, radio, and conversation noises ).

Despite the advent of modern radio communication, many of these whistle signals are still used today.

They board it to find that it is manned by headless corpses animated by a magical whistle ( their heads eerily lie on deck, still alive and seeing ).

His whistle is still used by the force and many others today.

The opening routine is the main area where the drum major displays his / her skill at spinning a mace / military baton and ends in what can be referred to as a ' pike ' ( the mace is still and pointing straight up ) followed by a whistle or vocal count off.

At the full-time whistle Cork still had a narrow 0-13 to 0-11 win to give Cummins a seventh Munster title.