A quick check shows that us. and us1. both resolve to the same IP = 67.14.164.114
His miner shows as being connected. His share count shows 0 accepted and 14 HW errors.
Not sure what the -k is for, I GPU mine and never use it. Alternate kernel? How about we get the primary kernel working first? The worksize seems large, too. I suggest that you drop everything off your command line except the -u and -p and see what happens.
There is a possibility that you've generated a bad cgminer.conf file. Delete it before you start again. f you quit using 'Q' a summary should print out that might show you something useful, too.
You don't really need to blank out your user name, unless you're afraid that someone is going to mine using it and give you free Bitcoins
