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I followed your getting started on the pool site.
STRATUM: stratum+tcp://dont include that24.159.196.108
PORT: 3333
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^Fixed

Is that a pool problem with whatever 24.159.196.108 is?
It's certainly not a cgminer issue in the original or the ant (corrupted) clone of it ... I've been using stratum like that on my ant for ... a long time.