  We have developed a new design of a GEM-like detector with single-layer
electrodes made of a resistive kapton. This detector can operate at gains close
to 10E5 even in pure Ar and Ne and if transited to discharges at higher gains
they, due to the high resistivity of electrodes, do not damage either the
detector or the front-end electronics. Gains ~ 106 can be achieved in a
cascaded mode of the operation. The detector can operate without gain
degradation at counting rates up to 10E4Hz/cm2 and thus it could be very useful
in many applications which require safe high gain operation, for example in
RICH, TPCs, calorimetric.
