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 '4c593010dddc6d2972bab87b30bd1b11987a09e1':
  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.