However, not until this month did the Nepalese government dole out the first instalment, to about 600 families in Dolakha district, of 50,000 (£330) of a promised 200,000 rupees for reconstruction.
Alabama wants to use most of its first instalment, about $85m, for youth programmes.
He has now collaborated on five films with the writer Peter Morgan - three times as Blair (the final instalment, about Blair's relationship with Clinton, is on its way), once as Frost, and now as Clough.
Of the pantheon of funny, smart, strong screen women to write a memoir, Anna Kendrick's is a welcome, entertaining and endearingly honest instalment, about school, dating, sex, family and her unlikely rise through Hollywood.
Still, it's surely only a matter of time before Hollywood sorts out the rights to JRR Tolkien's The Silmarillion, and Peter Jackson cheerfully offers up another torrent of annual movies – perhaps culminating in a final instalment about the sinking of Númenor that's been spuriously split in two for unknown reasons.
Osborne is thought to favour giving the NHS the £8bn in four roughly equal instalments of about £2bn in each of the next four years.
The first instalment was about Vienna in 1908, and it's not hard to make the case that in a year when you might find Freud, Hitler and Trotsky sitting in the same coffee house (different tables, I expect), big changes were afoot.
Scriptwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who have worked on five instalments of the series about the suave agent, also revealed they are quitting the franchise.
Never for longer than a couple of seconds, but enough that I had to pay my parents back in instalments (they were really nice about it).
Redemptions will be paid in quarterly instalments, with a large chunk of about $600m due on March 31st.
