def persist_events(events):
db.delete(Event.all())
talk_abstracts_soup = BeautifulSoup(urlfetch.fetch(talk_abstracts_url).content)
for event in events:
speaker, title = get_speaker_and_title(event)
e = Event()
e.id = get_id(event)
e.speaker, e.title = get_speaker_and_title(event)
e.duration = get_duration(event)
e.location = str(get_location(event))
e.start_time = get_start_time(event)
e.day = e.start_time.date()
e.abstract = ''
element = talk_abstracts_soup.find(text=title)
if element:
element = element.parent.parent.nextSibling
while not unicode(element).startswith('<hr'):
e.abstract += unicode(element)
element = element.nextSibling
e.put()
