In a moving picture encoding apparatus 10, as an embodiment of the present invention, a predicted image generator 16 generates a predicted image with respect to a target image, using a reference image stored in a frame memory 20. The liquid valve assembly can include a housing and a liquid valve. The inventive coating composition, preferably applied to the fluted inner ply of the cardboard, is compatible with the utilization of low-cost starch-based adhesives for gluing the fluting to the liners. In an embodiment, the quality indicators include asymmetry indexes. An inner pulverizing casing made entirely of wear-resistant material is freely mounted in an outer casing pressure vessel. State changes are collected in on-chip memory and added to the bin if the state vector associated with the bin is out of date.