How to sync the contacts on Mavericks 10.9?

The thing is that before I could sync my contacts whenever i want and there was an option to put a icon on the slide bar but now no
Does anyone knows about?
Thank you!

Here is why I think they did it (for what it's worth), many others have different opinions in that large thread.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23682140#23682140
My guess is that 2 years ago when they decided to deprecate sync services they didn't expect there would be an international storm around government agencies illegally tapping everything in sight & gagging Apple from saying how many accounts were handing over to investigators.
Barney-15E wrote:
The whole process of "synchronization" has been a collosal failure which is why it is being completely removed.
Using CalDAV and CardDAV standards, the truth data exists in only one place. There is no replicating, merging, and conflict resolution because those problems no longer exist.
Please explain how contact details move from an iOS device to iCloud & back to a Mac without any replicating, merging or conflict resolution? Change the same contact on your iOS device & on your Mac whilst offline & then go online to see what happens.
Apple has simply moved all of that workload to their servers instead of on a client, it is not "completely removed".

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