am a962ef29: am 4c593010: Merge "Followup to a bug fix. Addtion of synchronized to the methods triggers an API change. Per council advice, pushing synch block into the function body." into ics-mr1

* commit 'a962ef2993099e6c5db3809a7e829e43c8cf084a':
  Followup to a bug fix. Addtion of synchronized to the methods triggers an API change. Per council advice, pushing synch block into the function body.