In an internal e-mail apparently sent August 18, 2008 to NASA managers and leaked to the press, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin stated his belief that the Bush administration had made no viable plan for U. S. crews to participate in the International Space Station beyond 2011, and that Office of Management and Budget ( OMB ) and Office of Science and Technology Policy ( OSTP ) were actually seeking its demise.

Griffin was chosen as a Western Conference Reserve in the 2011 NBA All-Star Game, a rare honor for a rookie ; the first chosen by the coaches for the game since Tim Duncan in 1997.

In the 2011 NBA contest, L. A. Clippers power-forward Blake Griffin completed a self-pass off of the backboard prior to elbow-hanging on the rim.

Vanderbilt is very close friends with comedienne Kathy Griffin, and while appearing as a guest on her son Anderson Cooper's talk show, Anderson on September 19, 2011, referred to Griffin as her " fantasy daughter.

The 2011 game was also the first Alamo Bowl to feature the season's Heisman Trophy winner, Baylor's Robert Griffin III.

* 2011: Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize for Ossuaries

* 2010: Ossuaries-2010 ( McClelland & Stewart, ISBN 978-0-7710-1736-0 ) ( shortlisted for the 2011 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize and Pat Lowther Award )

Notable draft picks by the Globetrotters include: Sun Mingming ( 2007 ), Brent Petway ( 2007 ), Patrick Ewing, Jr. ( 2008 ), Sonny Weems ( 2008 ), Taylor Griffin ( 2009 ), Tim Howard ( 2009 ), Mark Titus ( 2010 ), Lionel Messi ( 2011 ), Paul Sturgess ( 2011 ), Andrew Goudelock ( 2011 ).

In 2008, the Barracuda group transformed the landmark Griffin hotel into a " Smith & Jones " branded pub, and in March 2011 Wetherpoons opened in the former Hippodrome bingo hall.

* In 2011, Bette Midler's 2nd Annual Hulaween Gala to benefit the New York Restoration Project was held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on October 31 with singer Gloria Estefan as the headliner, and other acts such as Kathy Griffin and Michael Kors.

As originally envisioned, both the Ares I and Ares V would have used a modified " throw away " version of the SSME, but in due course, because of the need to keep R & D costs down and to maintain a schedule set by NASA Administration Michael D. Griffin to launch the Ares and Orion by 2011, NASA decided to switch to the RS-68 engine for the Ares V and to an uprated J-2 engine for the Ares I.

When Griffin died in 2011, Estes remarked " It ’ s a good riddance that he left this world.

* David Hasselhoff-in July 2011, the American actor and producer visited the local public house, The Black Griffin, fuelling rumours that he was considering a move to Lisvane.

" Some of the People Who Ate My Barbecue Didn't Vote for Me ": The Life of Georgia Governor Marvin Griffin ( Vanderbilt University Press ; 2011 ) 286 pages

In fall of 2011, after seven years as the Executive Director and Chief Curator of The Kitchen, Debra Singer handed over the reigns to former ArtForum Editor-in-Chief Tim Griffin.

On September 8, 2011, Griffin married Nia Rivers.

In the summer of 2011, he guest-starred on the Lifetime TV series Drop Dead Diva, playing the ex-husband of the character played by comedienne Kathy Griffin.

Barney's received attention in early 2011 when one of their busboys, Ricardo Reyes, defeated LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony, Charles Barkley, Lamar Odom, Glen Davis and Blake Griffin in Pop-A-Shot, a mini basketball shooting competition, on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

In January 2011, Kweens departed the band, with Griffin returning to the lineup.

The Committee was founded in 2011 by Charlie Griffin, formerly the President of Exeter Halls.

On 2 May 2012, after Reading had won promotion to the Premier League and with Griffin having made only 9 league appearances in the 2011 – 12 season, the club announced it would not be renewing Griffin's contract.

The current ( 2011 ) National Poetry Slam Team champions are Denver ( Slam Nuba ), Colorado.

The current ( 2012 ) Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion is Dominique Ashaheed, who was also part of Denver's Slam Nuba in 2011.

As of 2011, four poets who have competed at National Poetry Slam have won National Endowment of the Arts ( NEA ) Fellowships for Literature:

* Cristin O ' Keefe Aptowicz ( who was on the NYC-Urbana Poetry Slam team in 1998, 2001, 2003 and 2010 ) won a NEA Fellowship in Poetry in 2011

* 2011 Poetry Now Award for Human Chain

* American ( U. S. A .)— Austin, Larry: Variations: Beyond Pierrot ( 1995 ; voice, small ensemble, live computer-processed sound, and computer-processed prerecorded tape ); Schachter, Michael: " Pierrot ( Heart )" ( 2011 ; voice and piano ; text by Langston Hughes above under # Poetry | Poetry ).

He received two Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and, as of 2011, teaches at Amherst College.

* Haugen, Kristine Louise, Richard Bentley: Poetry and Enlightenment ( Cambridge, MA ; London: Harvard University Press, 2011 ).

The Internet's first formal literary journal devoted to found poetry, The Found Poetry Review, debuted in 2011.

In 2011 Thick Syrup Records released the compilation cd Bewitched-Bob Bert Presents: The Worst Poetry Of 1986-1993, featuring all tracks Bob Bert recorded with Bewitched. The label also released the last album of the re-united Chrome Cranks featuring Bert on drums.

* Bewitched-Bob Bert Presents: The Worst Poetry Of 1986-1993 CD, Thick Syrup Records 2011

Her poems were selected for inclusion in Best American Poetry ( 1992 ) and Best Canadian Poetry ( 2009, 2010, 2011 ).

The orchestral song cycle “ Sing, Poetry ” on the 2011 album Troika consists of settings of Vladimir Nabokov ’ s Russian and English-language poetry by three Russian and three American composers.

* Maggot ( 2010 ), shortlisted for 2011 Poetry Now Award.

David Brooks argued in his 2011 book, The Sons of Clovis: Ern Malley, Adoré Floupette and a Secret History of Australian Poetry, that the Ern Malley hoax was modelled on the 1885 satire on French Symbolism and the Decadent movement, Les Déliquescences d ' Adoré Floupette by Henri Beauclair and Gabriel Vicaire.

It also hosts a high profile annual event under the banner Poetry and All That Jazz which included performances by Don Paterson in 2010, Sam Willetts in 2011 and David Harsent in 2012.

Bernstein will serve as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Poetry, Poetics, and Theory at Princeton University in the Fall Term of 2011.

She is the recipient of the 2011 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.

In 2011, Howe was awarded the Yale Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.

* 1915 – Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2011 )

* 1924 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2011 )

Fleming's Nobel Prize medal was acquired by the National Museums of Scotland in 1989 and is on display after the museum re-opened in 2011.

French cinema continued its upward trend of earning awards at the Cannes Festival, including the prestigious Grand Prix for Of Gods and Men ( 2010 ) and the Jury Prize for Poliss ( 2011 ); the Best Director Award for Mathieu Amalric ( On Tour, 2010 ); the Best Actress Award for Juliette Binoche ( Certified Copy, 2010 ); and the Best Actor Award for Jean Dujardin ( The Artist, 2011 ).

* 1917 – Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician, Nobel Prize Laureate ( d. 2011 )

* 1925 – Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2011 )

* 1921 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2011 )

Her daughter was there to receive the Prize of Honour on behalf of her father ; she would return to take a place on the jury herself in 2011.

* 1925 – Simon van der Meer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2011 )

In 2011, Dan Shechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in the Metallurgy Division in 1982-1984 with John W. Cahn.

On May 3, 2011, it was announced that Patti Smith is one of the winners of the Polar Music Prize: " By devoting her life to art in all its forms, Patti Smith has demonstrated how much rock ’ n ' roll there is in poetry and how much poetry there is in rock ’ n ' roll.

Due to fear of the scientific community's reaction, it took him two years to publish the results for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2011.

Shechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2011 for his work on quasicrystals.

In 2011, the John Templeton Foundation awarded Trinity College's Master, the astrophysicist Martin Rees, its controversial million-pound Templeton Prize, for " affirming life's spiritual dimension ".

This was " rewarded " with the 2011 Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Makoto Imai, Naoki Urushihata, Hideki Tanemura, Yukinobu Tajima, Hideaki Goto, Koichiro Mizoguchi and Junichi Murakami for determining the ideal density of airborne wasabi ( pungent horseradish ) to wake people in event of an emergency.

In July 2011, Ono was awarded the 8th Hiroshima Art Prize for her contributions in art and for peace.

* February 14 – Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ( d. 2011 )

* December 9 – William Lipscomb, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2011 )

* October 29 – Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan-born immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 2011 )

* August 27 – Norman F. Ramsey, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2011 )

* July 19 – Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( died 2011 )

** Har Gobind Khorana, Indian biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 2011 )

* July 28 – Baruch S. Blumberg, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 2011 )

** Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2011 )