How to give the $ sign back to jQuery?
<p>I am already declaring jQuery at the top of my <code>&lt;head&gt;</code>, below that I am referencing a ton of other plugins. When I do this in the body of my page:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
$(function() {

alert('hello');

});
&lt;/script&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>I don't get the alert. However if I redeclare jQuery again like so:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
$(function() {

alert('hello');

});
&lt;/script&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>It works. Is there any way to reassign the $ back to jQuery (which is what I'm guessing is the problem here). So I can use $ instead of jQuery noConlict.</p>
