Vita-Mix is one of my clients, and I brought them on board to our service.  My contact is a super-sharp guy and very nice.  He's been telling me about their products and they do sound really good.  You can get one at Costco.com:

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11609068&search=vitamix&Mo=1&cm_re=1_en-_-Top_Left_Nav-_-Top_search&lang=en-US&Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&Sp=S&N=5000043&whse=BC&Dx=mode+matchallpartial&Ntk=Text_Search&Dr=P_CatalogName:BC&Ne=4000000&D=vitamix&Ntt=vitamix&No=0&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Nty=1&topnav=&s=1