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SURREY, B.C. -- For B.C. Lions quarterback Travis Lulay, its been a wound that refuses to mend. Lulay can still feel the hurt from B.C.s loss to the Calgary Stampeders in last falls West Final. Lulay believes the healing process will finally begin Sunday when the Lions open their 2013 CFL training camp in Kamloops, B.C. "It was the most recent game we played so its still kind of on the back of your mind," Lulay told reporters Tuesday at the Lions practice facility. "As a pro you have to have a short memory. "As soon as we get back on the field ... you feel like you are starting to turn the page and really be able to focus on 2013. The excitement is in the air. For football junkies, its fun to starting talking Xs and Os again." The Lions finished first in the West last year with a 13-5 record but their dreams of playing in the 100th Grey Cup were crushed when the Stampeders upset them 34-29 at BC Place Stadium. "We are disappointed in the way it ended," said Lulay, who signed a three-year contract extension over the winter worth a reported $450,000 a season. "There is a ton to be learned every single year. "As a group and personally, I think we can grow a lot from what we experienced a year ago. I dont think (this year) is about avenging a loss or making amends for what happened in the West Final. I think its about taking the lessons from a year ago, knowing what we did to get us to 13-5, but finding a way to overcome that stumble we had in the playoffs." Lulay, who threw for 4,231 yards with 27 touchdowns and just 10 interceptions last season, is entrenched as the B.C. starter. With no clear No. 2, the Lions are taking five other quarterbacks to camp. The list includes Thomas DeMarco, who was on the Lions roster last year; Joey Elliott, who spent three seasons with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers before being released and signing with the Lions last week; Jarrett Brown, who joined B.C.s expanded practice roster in October; Chris Hart, a free-agent signing who attended a Seattle Seahawks mini-camp; and Jordan Yantz, a 22-year-old from Regina who is expected to quarterback the University of Manitoba Bisons this season. All the quarterbacks will attend the rookie camp to become more familiar with the playbook. "Im just going to be trying to learn as much as possible," said Elliott. "The more times you hear the same words over and over, hopefully something sticks. "Theres a lot to learn. You have to take that as a challenge and pick it up as fast as possible." Hart, who also played with the Tampa Bay Storm of the Arena Football League, will be adjusting to the Canadian game. "I love this opportunity," said the 25-year-old from Bradenton, Fla. "Its a blessing. Im glad they gave me the opportunity to come up here and enhance my ability." Lulay, 29, shrugged off suggestions that the lack of experience in the backup position doesnt give the Lions much of a safety net. "We have some good candidates," he said. "For me, it doesnt change what Im doing. "It changes maybe the culture of the position and for the team in general. I think we have some guys in place who are ready for the opportunity and want to step up." The Lions lost one of the teams leaders in the off-season when slotback Geroy Simon, the CFLs all-time receiving leader, was traded to Saskatchewan. Also gone are veterans like slotback Arland Bruce and defensive back Byron Parker. "Ive heard people throw the term lack of leadership around on the team," said Lulay. "I dont think thats the case. "I think the leadership is kind of dispersed throughout the team. I think theres a lot of guys in little bit elevated roles. I can tell you there is a lot of really good vibes (on the team). I think there are guys in the locker-room who believe we have the tools to have a very good year. We are excited to go give it a run." In the past, some players were satisfied conceding the leadership duties to Simon, Lulay said. His absence now forces other plays to assume that role. "What you worry about is, everything is fine when things are going well," Lulay said. "But when you hit a stumbling block ... thats when you are tested. "But I think we have the guys in the room, and the personalities, that have been through adversity. That gives me hope and faith." Lions veterans like placekicker Paul McCallum, centre Angus Reid, and defensive end Keron Williams held a meeting Tuesday to discuss the teams leadership. Lulay also accepts his duties as a leader. "I felt like Ive been in that role since I was handed the keys," he said. 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When he eats at all, its usually at a grungy soup kitchen or after picking through the trash.Now he and some 70 other homeless men are feasting on a three-course meal courtesy of one of the worlds top chefs. On the menu: Ossobuco with buttery baroa potatoes topped off with a gelato dessert.Who wouldve thought food made for the cream of society would be served to a group of homeless men? dos Santos said, gazing at the open, art-filled dining room and waiters in prim orange aprons that for a short while transported him away from his tough life.The gastronomic destination is the brainchild of Italian master chef Massimo Bottura. Using leftover ingredients from Olympic caterers and other local partners, Bottura created a gourmet soup kitchen, RefettoRio Gastromotiva , that for a week now has been serving up meals to Rios homeless population. The name is a play on the Latin word reficere, meaning to restore, and a nod to the communal dining rooms known as refectories that are a mainstay of monasteries.With questions swirling over the $12 billion price tag of South Americas first Olympics, Bottura wanted to make a statement about the games sustainability by taking on one symbol of Olympic waste: the more than 230 tons of food supplied daily to prepare 60,000 meals for athletes, coach and staff.This is a cultural project, not a charity, said Bottura, who runs the Michelin three-star Osteria Francescana in Modena. We want to rebuild the dignity of the people.Bottura said he was inspired by Pope Francis advocacy for the poor and modeled his project on a similar one he organized last year in an abandoned theater during the Milan worlds fair. His aim is to educate people about food waste in order to help feed the 800 million in the world who are hungry.Its a message that resonates in Rio.Over the past year, as Brazil plunged into its deepest recession in decades, the citys homeless population has struggled. In June, facing a financial calamity, Rios state government had to close or cutback service at 16 meal centers. The splurge on the Olympics has only heightened a sense of abandonment among the homeless, with many reporting being repeatedly removed by police from the citys recently cleaned-up Lapa district, where Botturas restaurant is located.In contrast to the government-run centers, where meals are served on prison-like food trays with throw-away cups, the Refettorio is an epicureans delight, complete with designer wood tables, oversized photos of the staff by French artist JR and a long mural of the Last Supper dripping in chocolate by Vik Muniz, one of Brazils top-selling artists.ddddddddddddAt night the space, built of corrugated plastic on a run-down lot donated by the city, looks like a lit-up box.For the Olympics launch, Bottura assembled a tour de force of local and international celebrity chefs. Once the games are over, the project will morph into a lunchtime restaurant, proceeds of which will fund evening meals for the homeless.Beneficiaries are selected by groups like one that runs a shelter for transvestites who work as prostitutes on Lapas libertine streets. Working the kitchen are graduates of local partner Gastromotiva, a nonprofit cooking school that has turned hundreds of Brazilians from the countrys neglected favelas into cooks.For many of the diners at RefettoRio, the food is unlike anything theyve tasted before. But its the royal treatment they relish most.Just sitting here, treated with respect on an equal footing, makes me think I have a chance, said Valdimir Faria, an educated man who found himself alone on Rios streets, in a downward alcoholic spiral, after his marriage and life in a city hours away fell apart.As dinner service got underway Sunday, a disheveled man identifying himself only as Nilson removed a few radish slices from his eggplant panzanella salad and deposited them in a plastic bucket holding a squeegee kit.I thought it was paper, he laughed, while trading a boisterous grazie, grazie with Bottura.Sundays meal was prepared by chef Rafael Costa e Silva, who normally dishes up fixed-price meals for $150 a head at his swank Lasai bistro in Rio. While he makes a living catering to the rich, he said hell never forget the experience of serving the poor.As dinner wound down, Costa e Silva emerged from the kitchen to thank his guests. It was Fathers Day in Brazil, and so for many of the men gathered who talked about lifes wrong turns and their estrangement from family, emotions ran high.What youve enjoyed is a simple meal but one made with lots of love and care, Costa e Silva said before the dining hall broke into applause. He wiped a tear from his cheek and continued.We wanted you to feel spoiled -- for at least one night.---Joshua Goodman is on Twitter: https://twitter.com/apjoshgoodman His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/journalist/joshua-goodman---This story has been corrected to show the Brazilian chefs last name is Costa e Silva, not Cota e Silva. ' ' '