title: check box to activate/deactivate
body: <p>I have the following code. I want to make a check box that will activate this code when checked and deactivates the code when unchecked. can someone show me how?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
  var auto_refresh = setInterval(
  function ()
  {
  $('#load_tweets').load('record_count.php').fadeIn("slow");
  }, 10000); // refresh every 10000 milliseconds
  
  &lt;body&gt;
  &lt;div id="load_tweets"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
  
  &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>