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Battle Over Access
Having elected its first anti-abortion governor in 16 years, Montana has joined other states in passing laws to restrict abortion access while courts decide if they violate the Constitution
By Maggie Dresser November 17, 2021
The Montana State Capitol building in Helena. Beacon file photo
For 16 years, those seeking an abortion in Montana have been free to either walk into one of the few clinics in the state or have a medical abortion through telehealth knowing they have a constitutional right to end their pregnancy.
But when Montana voters elected Gov. Greg Gianforte in 2020, the controversy over abortion access reignited after more than two decades without a major court case. As the Republican-led Legislature entered its session in 2021, lawmakers introduced four anti-abortion laws restricting access, all of which were signed by Gianforte, that would have likely been vetoed under two previous Democratic administrations.
Critics of the bills, which received support from Republican lawmakers statewide, including several in Flathead County, say they effectively restrict telehealth, shorten the gestation period of legal abortions and require unnecessary procedures, creating access barriers.
House Bill 140 requires medical providers offer patients an opportunity to view an ultrasound and listen to a fetal heart tone before an abortion. House Bill 171 requires that abortion-inducing medication be distributed in person in addition to requiring extensive information be provided to, and collected from, the patient. House Bill 136 restricts abortions after 20 weeks of gestation. And finally, House Bill 167 would place a referendum on a 2022 ballot that would place severe penalties on medical providers who have not provided life-preserving treatment to a newborn infant following an abortion procedure.
"I think this is really the biggest threat we have seen for the last 16 years," said Martha Stahl, the CEO at Planned Parenthood of Montana. "For 16 years, we had governors who would veto anti-abortion access bills."
Following the bills' passage, Planned Parenthood of Montana filed a lawsuit challenging all four, arguing they are unconstitutional and violate Montana's protection to the right to privacy.
Yellowstone County District Court Judge Michael Moses issued a preliminary injunction last month for three of the bills, excluding only the law that calls for a 2022 ballot referendum, writing in his decision that patients would be "irreparably harmed through the loss of their constitutional rights."
While the new laws are halted for now, Stahl says at Planned Parenthood they are preparing for the state to appeal the preliminary injunction.
"We'll see how that goes in the Montana Supreme Court," Stahl said. "We'll keep moving forward … It's hard to know what the court will do and what the exact timeline is."
Protesters stand in front of All Families Healthcare sexual and reproductive health clinic in Whitefish on Nov. 11, 2021. Hunter D'Antuono | Flathead Beacon
Abortion access in such a geographically spread-out state has never been easy in the 147,040 square miles it covers.
There are five abortion clinics in Montana with three Planned Parenthood branches in Billings, Helena and Great Falls along with Blue Mountain Clinic in Missoula and All Families Healthcare in Whitefish. No clinics exist on the eastern side of the state and Great Falls only provides medical abortions. Patients statewide can get an abortion through telehealth.
According to survey data collected by the Guttmacher Institute in 2014, nearly one-fifth of U.S. abortion patients traveled more than 50 miles one way for care.
In addition to Montana's rural landscape, which creates proximity barriers for all healthcare, current laws also limit provider's qualifications, requiring a medical doctor (MD) or a physician's assistant (PA) to perform an abortion.
In 2018, The Center for Reproduction Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union of Montana requested a preliminary injunction on behalf of Whitefish-based Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) Helen Weems to block the law so she could provide abortions in northwest Montana, arguing that the state faces a shortage of abortion providers. The district court granted the request, which blocked the law and allowed Weems to receive training under her mentor, Susan Cahill, a PA and retired abortion care provider in Kalispell whose clinic was destroyed in 2014 after a 24-year-old man broke in and vandalized it.
Weems has been providing abortions at All Families in Whitefish since 2018 under the injunction and she's still waiting for a judge to decide if she and other APRNs and Certified Nurse Midwives can provide abortions in Montana.
Now, the state's new legislation is causing Weems additional concern, as well as an added degree of uncertainty.
"This is an absolutely terrible time in history for abortion access," Weems said in an email. "We are getting hit both at the state and federal levels. There are more restrictions on abortion access passed in the state legislatures in 2021 than in any year since the passage of Roe v. Wade."
But several legislators in Flathead County who supported the laws maintain they are intended to protect women's safety, arguing the state's constitution does not furnish individuals with a right to privacy.
"There is no constitutional right to privacy no matter what people say," Rep. John Fuller, R-Whitefish, said. "There is no right to privacy. The word isn't even in the constitution."
Fuller supported each bill based on his belief that abortion is unconstitutional and called the temporary injunction "a classic case of legislation from the bench," arguing that representatives voted overwhelmingly and there is nothing "constitutionally egregious" about any of them.
"I look at things legalistically and modern science has proved that upon conception, a new and distinct DNA has been created," Fuller said. "We use DNA as the legal definition of a person … Therefore we have a new person. The fourteenth amendment says no state shall deny any person due process of law."
Rep. Derek Skees, R-Kalispell, was also unhappy with the court's decision to grant an injunction, calling it a failure.
"There's no basis in our constitution to use the right to privacy to murder a baby," Skees said. "The courts have humongously failed and we need to throw out Montana's socialist rag of a constitution."
Skees doesn't view the new laws as a barrier to healthcare, he said, describing them as measures intended to prevent death.
Appreciation cards adorn a door in All Families Healthcare sexual and reproductive health clinic in Whitefish on Nov. 11, 2021. Hunter D'Antuono | Flathead Beacon
"Mothers that choose abortion are the number one killers of babies," Skees said. "We're wiping out generations of workers. That's the story, not access to healthcare. If it's not your DNA, it's not your body and it's not your choice."
At Clear Choice Clinic, a reproductive and sexual healthcare center that does not provide abortions, Executive Director and Registered Nurse Michelle Reimer says that while she does not participate in anti-abortion legislation, she supports each law.
"I'm a Christian woman and I don't believe in abortion," Reimer said. "I help women understand her options."
Reimer says the laws protect women's safety and reduce traumatizing situations. House Bill 171, which requires abortion-inducing drugs to be provided in-person instead of through telehealth, is particularly important to her because she says an ultrasound should be required.
"There's one huge missing component and that is an ultrasound," Reimer said. "With telemedicine, women aren't having ultrasounds before they have an abortion."
Stahl says law prohibiting telehealth abortions, which also requires three appointments, adds barriers for women that already have difficulty accessing an abortion in a large rural state. At Planned Parenthood of Montana, 25% of all visits, including birth control services, are through telehealth services. After viewing telehealth data in the past year, Stahl said on average patients would have had to drive 90 minutes each way if telehealth was not available, disproportionally affecting people who live in rural areas and who don't have reliable transportation.
For someone living in the northeastern corner of Montana, they would have to travel more than 300 miles in one direction to receive an abortion at the nearest clinic in Billings.
"The medication abortion law would be more far reaching in its effect on people seeking abortion in Montana … Anti-choice legislators recognize that medication abortion by mail increases access to abortion exponentially and they will do anything to make it illegal," Weems, of All Families Healthcare in Whitefish, said.
While the court has protected abortion access in Montana for the short-term, the future is in limbo and Stahl and Weems are preparing for what's to come.
Stahl says the state has signaled a plan to appeal the preliminary injunction and the case will likely go to the Montana Supreme Court, but she says it's hard to say what the timeline will be and what the court will decide.
After Texas recently banned abortion after six weeks, Stahl says it doesn't directly impact other states but it could set a framework for the rest of the country.
A rally for reproductive rights drew a crowd of hundreds to Whitefish on Oct. 2, 2021, in response to the passage of more restrictive abortion laws in Montana. Photo provided by Joan Vetter Ehrenberg
"If the U.S. Supreme Court says a six-week ban is constitutional, other states could enact a six-week ban," Stahl said. "But it doesn't mean every state will. If their state's law is stronger than the court, the state gets to decide."
The strength of Montana's right to privacy protection puts the state in that category, Stahl said.
"If a six-week ban is upheld, the (Montana) Legislature could pass a six-week ban and the governor could sign it," Stahl said. "But the Montana Supreme Court could still overturn it."
On the federal level, if Roe v. Wade, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that protects the right to choose to have an abortion, is overturned, abortions will still be legal in Montana.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, 11 states have trigger laws, meaning they will automatically ban abortions if Roe v. Wade is struck down, including North Dakota, South Dakota and Idaho. Since Montana borders three trigger states, Stahl says its clinics will likely see more people seeking an abortion traveling from other states.
"I think it will be very difficult for providers to keep up," Stahl said. "People would be waiting a long time for care."
Meanwhile, Weems is still waiting to hear a decision about her separate case, which will decide whether nurse practitioners and certified nurse midwives can continue providing abortions. But even if Weems cannot continue as a nurse practitioner, she says All Families will remain open and continue providing abortion care.
"(We're going to) keep on fighting," Weems said. "These laws do not represent the will of the majority … We will keep fighting and caring for our patients. We aren't going anywhere."


You've probably been hearing more about the Agile Method of software development. A growing number of organizations are leveraging the framework to enhance and speed up development processes at a time when quality and agility are likely to be key market differentiators.
Agile uses incremental, iterative work sequences called sprints.
The Agile Method is an approach to project management that is designed to help development teams effectively address the moving targets and uncertainties that characterize the creation of new software applications. One of the hallmarks of Agile is that it uses incremental, iterative sequences of work that are commonly referred to as "sprints."
A sprint is the time allotted for a specific phase of a development project, and it's considered to be complete when the time period set for the phase expires. Work on that phase of the project ends, even if some team members think more effort is needed. The next phase of the project begins and runs through its designated time frame, and so on until all the phases of the project are complete.
Many of the ideas behind Agile emerged in the 1970s as alternatives to traditional approaches to project development. But the term "Agile" in the context of software development was first popularized by the "Manifesto for Agile Software Development," created in 2001 by a group of experienced software developers who came to realize that they were practicing software development in a different manner from the classic waterfall methodology.
The manifesto documented their shared beliefs about how modern software development processes should operate, and the values and principles outlined in the manifesto were derived from and support a range of development models, such as Scrum and Kanban.
These four central tenets make up the Agile Manifesto.
Four central tenets make up the Agile Manifesto: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools; working software over comprehensive documentation; customer collaboration over contract negotiation; and responding to change over following a plan.
While there is value in processes and tools, comprehensive documentation, contract negotiation, and following a plan, the manifesto states, there is greater value in individuals and interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change.
Simplicity – the art of maximizing the amount of work not done—is essential.
The two main development models underpinning the Agile Method are Scrum and Kanban. There's a general misconception in the market that the Agile Method and Scrum are the same thing, so it's important to understand that Scrum is actually a way of doing work within Agile.
Scrum is one of the most popular software testing methodologies, but it's actually a framework for managing work with an emphasis on software development.
The Scrum model is designed for teams of three to nine developers who divide work into actions that can be completed within sprints, and track progress and re-plan in 15-minute meetings called daily scrums.
Coordinating the work of multiple scrum teams within larger enterprises is achieved through approaches including Large-scale Scrum (LeSS), Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), scrum of scrums, and Scrum@Scale.
Scrum supports a flexible product development strategy in which development teams work as individual units to reach a common goal. It enables teams to self-organize by encouraging physical proximity or online collaboration of all team members, and daily face-to-face communication among all team members.
A key component of the methodology is the acknowledgement that customers will change their minds about what they want or need regarding software, and that there will be unpredictable challenges during the development process for which predictive or planned approaches are not suited.
Because of this, Scrum features an evidence-based empirical approach that accepts the idea that problems can't be fully understood or defined upfront. It instead focuses on how to maximize a team's ability to deliver software quickly, respond to emerging requirements, and adapt to evolving changes.
The methodology differs from the Waterfall approach in that the older method includes several testing and bug fixing cycles before a product is released. Scrum is much more collaborative and iterative, and Waterfall requires lots of documentation early in the process.
The product owner speaks on behalf of the customer that will be using the product.
Scrum typically includes a few key roles. One is the product owner, who represents a software product's stakeholders and speaks on behalf of the customer that will be using the product. Among other responsibilities, the product owner defines the product in customer-centric terms, and sets priorities based on importance.
The product owner is tasked with focusing on the business side of product development, rather than determining how a development team solves problems, and is responsible for communicating development progress to stakeholders.
Another key role is the development or delivery team, which is responsible for delivering software product increments at the end of each sprint. These teams typically consist of three to nine members who perform all the tasks needed to create the product increments, including design, development, testing, and other functions. They are self-organizing, although there might be interaction with other roles outside the team, such as with a project management officer (PMO).
A third key role is the scrum master, who facilitates Scrum and is accountable for addressing any issues that might impede the ability of the team to deliver on the product goals. A scrum master acts as a buffer between the development team and any inside or outside influences that might detract from a project and makes sure that the Scrum framework is being followed.
The Kanban Method is a way to design, manage, and enhance the workflow of a development project, enabling organizations to begin with their existing workflow and make gradual improvements by visualizing the flow of work, limiting work in progress, and focus on completing the work.
The method takes its name from the use of Kanban, visual signaling mechanisms, to control work in progress. A general term for systems using the Kanban Method is flow, reflecting that work flows continuously through a system rather than being organized into distinct timeboxes, according to the Agile Alliance, a nonprofit organization that supports Agile efforts.
Kanban boards leverage Lean-Agile principles to empower teams to innovate, adapt, and deliver value faster.
Kanban can be used in any knowledge work setting, the Alliance says, and is particularly applicable in situations where work arrives in an unpredictable fashion or when a team wants to deploy work as soon as it's ready, rather than waiting for other work items.
Development teams applying Kanban embrace values such as transparency, sharing information openly using clear and straightforward language to improve the flow of business value; balance of viewpoints and capabilities to achieve effectiveness; collaboration; and a focus on internal or external customers.
Kanban is structured to address the human tendency to resist change, according to the Alliance. Practitioners need to first understand current processes as they're actually practiced and respect existing roles, responsibilities and job titles, and agree to pursue improvement through evolutionary change.
The Agile method of software development presents several compelling potential benefits for companies. These benefits fall into two main categories: Company economic framework and people perspectives.
The Agile Method changes the way work is structured, and even the way organizations think about work. It introduces a shift in the way tasks are completed, with the aim of increasing productivity throughout the development lifecycle and at the same time boosting productivity.
The method is designed to create more efficient and productive ways of working that helps teams achieve better results and higher quality products that actually meet the needs of customers. The rise in efficiency comes because teams work in shorter cycles and are less likely to veer off in the wrong direction in terms of design and development.
Rather than working from development plans that are measured in months and even years, teams are expected to produce results within weeks. That means there is faster and regular feedback from customers, and many opportunities to make mid-course corrections in order to deliver what the customer wants at virtually each stage.
Agile allows knowledge to be shared among colleagues and builds team experience.
By leveraging iterative planning and feedback, teams can continuously enhance products to reflect the needs of clients, and easily adapt to changing requirements throughout the process by accurately measuring and evaluating project status at every stage.
Team members can learn during each cycle, and gain knowledge as they move along with a project. Because much of Agile is a collaborative process, this knowledge can be shared among colleagues as appropriate, building up the experience of the team as a whole.
The collaboration extends to the customers who will be using the software. Although customer needs can and do change over time, having continuous feedback during the development process greatly reduces the likelihood of delivering products that are off the mark.
From a corporate results standpoint, all of this can lead to higher revenue from product sales, shorter time to market for new products and services, and increased ability to compete.
Many might argue that in today's business environment, being agile in general is not a nice-to-have capability – it's a must-have. Customers expect companies to be highly agile, and if they're not they will turn to competitors that meet this need.
It's a common sentiment that people are an organization's most valuable assets – and it's true.
Regardless of how much automation companies adopt as a result of advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, and other areas, human workers are still the heart and soul of any business. They are the drivers of creativity and innovation.
The Agile method can provide benefits from a people perspective because it can lead to happier employees and team. Better team collaboration fosters more cohesion and cooperation among developers.
When workers are satisfied, there is less likelihood of conflict among team members and less turnover, which means companies don't need to spend much of their time looking for new talent at a time when technology skills are difficult to come by.
When there is a need to expand development teams, fostering a positive work environment can make it easier to recruit people. The Agile Method can help provide a much better environment for innovation, the empowerment of teams, and the realization of creative potential. All these things are attractive to prospective employees.
The Agile Method can also lead to more satisfied customers. Because of the close collaboration between development teams and the ultimate users of the software, customers get a chance to share in the innovation and weigh in on what they think is important. As a result, there is a much greater chance they will be pleased with the finished product.
The Agile Method of software development does not guarantee success. Problems can still arise in the development process. Communications among team members can be faulty. Technology tools can fail. Customers can end up being unsatisfied with products.
It's also important to remember that with Agile it's not a one-size-fits-all proposition. Different organizations have unique needs and challenges, both internally and externally. What works well for one enterprise might not work well for another.
With the proliferation of technology, devices, and applications, the services behind them have great importance, Transparency Market says, resulting in the IT industry needing to increasingly manage the services it provides. This, combined with the requirement to deliver more value, is likely to drive the growth of Agile development services.
As more organizations move toward digital transformation and attempt to enhance their data management capabilities, Agile will likely play an even bigger role. A report by consulting firm McKinsey & Company, "Using Agile to Accelerate Your Data Transformation," notes that an Agile approach to data migration and management conveys a number of important benefits, not the least of which is to declutter the business-information landscape.
Technology and business leaders would be wise to familiarize themselves with the Agile Method, if they haven't already. For many organizations, it represents the way work is accomplished in the age of digital transformation.


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Jul 21 2015 : The Times of India (Chennai)
Meet the Times Su-doku Chennai winners
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The thrilling finish to the Chennai finals of the Times Su-doku Championship in association with DY Patil University gave the event a new batch of winners. Forty-three-year-old Rakesh Rai from Navallur walked away with the honours this year, beating around 500 participants. The participants came from various walks of life, including homemakers, IT professionals, retired officials and college kids. First runner-up, 26year-old Kishore Kumar Sridharan from KK Nagar, was ecstatic about his win and said, "I'm in seventh heaven because this is the third year in a row that I have made it to the top three. There were a few moments of panic in the end when I found a silly mistake in my solution sheet. I quickly corrected it before submitting my sheet."
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News for New Kent County and Charles City County, Virginia | January 27, 2023
CC recovers, topples ARGS
By Alan Chamberlain | February 18, 2010 2:53 pm
Charles City's Panthers watched an 11-point second half lead disappear, but a combination of defense and sinking just enough free throws down the stretch preserved a 55-46 Tri-Rivers District basketball victory over the visitors from Appomattox Regional Governor's School.
The visiting Dragons also contributed to the Panther cause in the late stages of Monday's contest by not scoring. Appomattox trailed 45-44 with 3:23 left in the game, but did not score again until more than three minutes later. By then, the hosts had converted eight of 15 free throws to put the game safely in the win column.
Charles City coach Sharone Bailey attributed the outcome to utilizing a five-guard lineup in the fourth quarter to take advantage of quickness on offense and unrelenting pressure on defense.
"The boys believed it tonight and gave me everything they had," he said. "They looked so good, I didn't want to substitute anybody."
Late dramatics, however, appeared out of the question as the Panthers built a seemingly comfortable lead in the third quarter. The hosts, leading 29-27 at the break, froze the ball early on, a move designed to pull the Dragons out of their zone defense. Four minutes elapsed before the visitors resorted to man-to-man.
"I knew they couldn't stay with my team in man-to-man," Bailey said.
Charles City owned a 30-29 advantage when the ploy began to pay off. The Panthers erupted for 10 unanswered points, including six on Terrance Banks lay-ins, to extend the margin to 40-29 with under a minute to play in the third period.
But the Dragons answered with the last three points of the period and another nine to start the final quarter. When Dimitri Ross buried a jumper from the foul line with 5:11 left to play, the shot completed a 12-0 run that had the Dragons back in front 41-40.
Charles City regained the lead as Trevor Jones penetrated to the basket. A Jared Woodley free throw and a double clutch shot in the lane from Roger Williams helped the hosts create a 45-42 advantage.
The Dragons' Micaiah Presley sank a pair of free throws with 3:43 to go, closing the gap to 45-44, but those would be the last ARGS points registered until Ross scored in the lane with just 18 seconds left. Charles City, meanwhile, took advantage at the free throw stripe to pull away.
Jones' 19 points and Dominique Williams' 16 led the Panthers, now 5-6 in the district and 6-14 overall. Banks finished with 10 while Woodley tossed in six and Roger Williams ended with four.
Ross scored 19 to lead ARGS.
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Data quality now outranks security in new governance initiatives
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Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) and systems management provider Quest Software today released their 2022 State of Data Governance and Empowerment Report, an annual study that identifies challenges and innovations in data governance, data management and dataops.
A key takeaway is that the pursuit of high-quality data has overtaken data security as the most important motivator for data governance initiatives. Forty-one percent of IT leaders agreed that their business decision-making relies fundamentally on trustworthy, high-quality data. At the same time, 45% of those surveyed contend that problems with data quality are the biggest detractor from return-on-investment in data governance efforts.
The findings are based on ESG's survey of 220 business and IT professionals responsible for and/or familiar with data governance and empowerment strategies, investments and operations at their organizations. All the organizations represented in the research have at least 1,000 employees and annual revenues of $100 million or more.
Using data to the max
While they recognize the high importance of high-quality data, according to the survey, data management leaders are still struggling to improve their data and the capability to strategically leverage and maximize data use in practice.
Security remains a major concern for all data executives. But the tide has shifted toward maintaining high data quality standards first in order to get the right data in place – even before safeguarding it in whatever storage arrangement is selected by the enterprise.
"We saw the convergence of data-quality initiatives into data governance some time ago," Heath Thompson, president and GM of Quest's information systems management (ISM) business, told VentureBeat. "When I looked at this ESG report, it was interesting to see how important data quality has really become as a front-and-center topic."
Once you lay the foundation for data governance, Thompson said, there are many operational things you can begin to do, including building policy, whether it be data security, dataops or something else. "That's how the industry is starting to do it now."
Dataops being used in data-quality initiatives
Dataops is a collaborative data management practice focused on improving the communication, integration and automation of data flows between data managers and data consumers across an organization.
While the challenges of data visibility and observability are different across industries, dataops was overwhelmingly recognized in the survey as the primary solution to drive forward data empowerment, Thompson said. Ninety percent of those surveyed agreed that strengthening dataops capabilities improves data quality, visibility and access issues across their businesses.
The biggest opportunities to improve dataops accuracy and efficiency lie in investing in automated technologies and the deployment of time-saving tools, such as metadata management. The survey reported that only 37% of respondents describe their dataops processes as automated, and a similarly small proportion report having automated data cataloging and mapping today (36% and 35%, respectively).
"Trustworthy data and efficient data operations have never been more influential in determining the success or failure of business goals," Quest CEO Patrick Nichols said in a media advisory. "When people lack access to high-quality data and the confidence and guidance to use it properly, it's virtually impossible for them to reach their desired outcomes."
The report also revealed that business leaders struggle not only to make sense of their data but to locate it and use it in the first place, Thompson said. Forty-two percent of survey respondents said at least half of their data was "dark data" – that is, retained by the organization, but unused, unmanageable and unfindable. An influx in dark data and a lack of data visibility often leads to downstream bottlenecks, impeding the accuracy and effectiveness of operational data, Thompson said.
"We're not talking about the 'dark web' here," Thompson said. "The dark data we're concerned with is all that data that is collected but never used by an enterprise. Dataops automation is being used to fix this."
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Indira Anne Varma (born 27 September 1973) is an English actress. Her film debut and first major role was in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. She has gone on to appear in the television series The Canterbury Tales, Rome, Luther, Human Target, and Game of Thrones (as Ellaria Sand). In September 2016, she began starring in the ITV/Netflix series Paranoid, as DS Nina Suresh.
Varma, a method actress, has had a number of television and film roles, including Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love in 1997 and Bride and Prejudice in 2004, and the young Roman wife Niobe during the first season of BBC/HBO's historical drama series Rome. Her character appeared briefly in the second season of the award-winning series when it aired on 14 January 2007.
In 2006, she played Suzie Costello in the first and eighth episodes, "Everything Changes" and "They Keep Killing Suzie", of BBC Three's science-fiction drama series Torchwood. She appeared as Dr Adrienne Holland in the CBS medical drama 3 lbs which premiered on 14 November 2006 and was cancelled on 30 November 2006 due to poor ratings. Varma guest starred in the fourth-season premiere of hit US detective drama Bones as Scotland Yard Inspector Cate Pritchard. She also played the role of Zoe Luther in the first series of the BBC drama Luther.
She lent her voice to the Circle mage Vivienne, in the 2014 role-playing video game Dragon Age: Inquisition. Later on, she also gave her voice to Katherine Proudmoore in Battle for Azeroth, the most recent expansion in the MMO role-playing game World of Warcraft.
In 1997, Varma played Bianca in Shakespeare's Othello at the National Theatre, London. In 2000 to 2001, she appeared in Harold Pinter and Di Trevis's NT stage adaptation of Pinter's The Proust Screenplay, Remembrance of Things Past, based on À la recherche du temps perdu, by Marcel Proust. In the summer of 2001, she played Gila in One for the Road, by Harold Pinter, at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.
In 2002, she played Sasha Lebedieff in Ivanov by Anton Chekhov at the National Theatre and Bunty Mainwaring in The Vortex by Noël Coward at the Donmar Theatre, London. In 2004, she played Sabina in The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder at the Young Vic Theatre Theatre, London. In 2008, she played Nadia Baliye in The Vertical Hour by David Hare at the Royal Court Theatre London. In 2009, she played Olivia in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night with Donmar West End at Wyndham's Theatre, London. In 2012, she played Jessica in Terry Johnson's Hysteria at the Theatre Royal, Bath. In 2013 she played Miss Cutts in The Hothouse by Harold Pinter in the Trafalgar Transformed season at Trafalgar Studios.
In 2014, Varma played Tamora, Queen of the Goths, in Lucy Bailey's "gore-fest" production of Titus Andronicus at Shakespeare's Globe. In 2015, she appeared alongside Ralph Fiennes in George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman at the National Theatre.
Varma and her husband, fellow actor Colin Tierney, live with their daughter Evelyn in Hornsey, North London.
1996 Crucial Tales Manreet Episode: "Phoenix"
2003 Rockface Alison Episode: "2.5"
2003 The Canterbury Tales Meena Episode: "The Sea Captain's Tale"
2005 Love Soup Suzanne Daley Episode: "They Do Not Move"
2006 The Inspector Lynley Mysteries Melissa Booth Episode: "In the Blink of an Eye"
2008 Comanche Moon Therese Wanz Episode: "1.2"
2008 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Bela Khan Episode: "Assassin"
2008 Bones Inspector Cate Pritchard Episode: "The Yanks in the U.K.: Parts 1 & 2"