For the Beach Boys album, see Hawthorne, CA (album). Hawthorne is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city at the 2010 census had a population of 84,293, up from 84,112 in 2000. In 2013, the population was 86,199.
A pomodoro kitchen timer, after which the method is named. The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. The technique uses a timer to break down work into intervals, traditionally 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. These intervals are named pomodoros, the plural in English of the Italian word pomodoro (tomato), after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer that Cirillo used as a university student.
Breaks allowed between games. If you're playing a match (which is usually the best of 3, 5 or 7 games), you're allowed to take a maximum break of up to one minute between games. But, if you don't take all of that one minute, you can't claim extra time at the next interval.