Barratt Suzanne

@SuzBarratt

English. Lives in Lyon, France. Mum to a gorgeous young man. Love writing+gardening+golf. Work for a Seeds & Ag company - #BASF SA All opinions are my own.

France

Joined October 2010

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510 Followers

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Barratt Suzanne @SuzBarratt

over 2 years ago

Check out the interesting article on Regenerative Agriculture #regenerative #sustainableagriculture

Seed World Europe

@SeedWorldEU

over 2 years ago

New issue alert! Check out our latest issue, now online: https://t.co/yT1IGNRUWs

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Barratt Suzanne @SuzBarratt

almost 3 years ago

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

Barratt Suzanne @SuzBarratt

about 3 years ago

Great visit to #buga23 * today (*massive German garden/sustainability exhibition) with #basf team members! Check out the sustainable cotton story from #seed2sew ATHOS PALLAS made the garments.♡ https://t.co/VqJgkCJNiF

Barratt Suzanne @SuzBarratt

about 3 years ago

Design Thinking Workshop - business models and customer centricity with abijeet sharma Tara Badri for #sustainable #cotton #see2sew blockchain value proposition #basf - WayToGo! https://t.co/mV5zVdJMvG

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Euroseeds

@EuroseedsEU

We represent associations & businesses active in #plantbreeding, #seedproduction, #seedmarketing, #geneticresources, #biodiversity. We are #GrowingTheFuture.

Beth Roden

@BethKRoden22

Brand & reputation builder. Head of Comms @BayerUS & Consumer Health NA. Mom of 3 girls. Health, #Ag, travel & country music are likes! Views are my own.

The Risk-Monger

@zaruk

David Zaruk, as The Risk-Monger, challenges confirmation bias. Fighting activist zealots. Fighting for farmers. Fighting cardiovascular disease and arthritis.

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Mohamad Safa

@mhdksafa

over 3 years ago

When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door." From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else. When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career. Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have ... not made it. What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne. She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end. Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame." In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life." He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm. Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend. Will Stenberg

mhdksafa's tweet photo. When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door."
From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else.
When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career.
Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have ... not made it.
What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne.
She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end.
Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame."
In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life."
He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm.
Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend.

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Barratt Suzanne @SuzBarratt

about 3 years ago

I did not know this about Harrison Ford - what great advice! In for the long game :-) https://t.co/TQcsB4LLMC

Barratt Suzanne @SuzBarratt

over 3 years ago

@EdinburghAirpo1 - excellent services - self drop off and security so fast, so simple - I LOVE IT. Only draw back is the price of the hotels!

Barratt Suzanne @SuzBarratt

over 3 years ago

An amazing TedTalk - thank you Jodi Cohen for sharing! I want to share with the world #childdevelopment #parenting #publicspeakingskills https://t.co/FFsn54twm9

Barratt Suzanne @SuzBarratt

over 3 years ago

That is nice but another Mothers' day is around the corner can we copy and post for the 4th June! #mothersday2023 https://t.co/wSO7rdCbz6

Barratt Suzanne @SuzBarratt

over 3 years ago

@ADB0806 Is it really that rare? We have a couple that have chosen our garden every spring since Covid - so great to see them close up.

Barratt Suzanne @SuzBarratt

over 3 years ago

Working currently on decarbonizing agricultural programs.. Very interesting and really enjoying the challenge. I am upscaling my carbon literacy too! I hope everyone agrees to this statement! If so, now we need big thinking solutions to this problem :-) https://t.co/WXzsXMrLB8