I have a suggestion to an issue I am having. The .md-slide-items div wrapper has a min-height set on it so the loader will show. The issue is that when the window is shrunk down, this wrapper overflows over the content below the slider, making the content just below inaccessible to clicks. Can I suggest to adding to your removeLoader function a line that removes the min-height style. I added something like 't(".md-slide-items").css("min-height","")' to the minified javascript, and it seems be working fine with the loader showing, while removing the min-height so the overflow isn't an issue anymore.

I hope this helps!