NBC's juggernaut morning show, now expanded to four hours each weekday, lent its help to an hour of prime time last Monday, producing a holiday special called "Today Looks Back".
And this year, Vancouver-based harm reduction group Karmik travelled there to lend its services, helping to calm people tripping balls or offering water to those getting dehydrated.
In the wake of the multi-week trial, some wondered whether or not Google would lend its collaborator a helping hand.
The Carlyle Group, the Washington private equity firm, agreed to lend its affiliate more money to help it survive a credit meltdown that began with subprime mortgage defaults.
FOOTNOTE The German Archaeological Institute yesterday offered to lend its expertise and personnel to help with damage assessment, repairs and cleanup operations at ransacked museums in Iraq.
As human rights groups condemned murders carried out by Tunisian police, the French foreign minister, Michèle Alliot-Marie, said France would lend its own police "knowhow" to help Ben Ali's forces maintain order.
Google will also lend its programming and computational expertise, helping with the computer analysis of the data – something that is traditionally very expensive for academics to get access to.
The Australian Antarctic Division had lent its hand to help evacuate the American explorer, an example of the solidarity among Antarctic nations.
But turning an hour of video captured into a 90-second video is hard, which is why GoPro is lending its producers to help make a video that will get attention.
The local indigenous community, the Lenca people, has long opposed the project, but construction has continued with the support of the Honduran government, which contracted with the company to build the dam in 2010 and has lent its security forces to help police protests.
