add getting amelia file locally

moving away from using the webservice file loader, as it takes too long
to fetch remotely, and doing all the work at the moment on a single
computer.

So this option adds remote and path variables.  remote defaults to true,
and path to null

also cleans up some other errors from before that worked because of the
use case, but failed with local gets (missing year param, path param,
some stray semi-colons, etc)