Mode is a village in Banmauk Township, Katha District, in the Sagaing Region of northern-central Burma.

Banmauk or Bamauk is a town in the Sagaing Division in Burma. It is connected by road to Pinlebu which links with Phaungbyin and Kawlin. The township is home to the Shan, Kadu and Kanan ethnic minorities, and the region has witnessed fighting between the Communists and the government troops.

Gary Benjamin "Ben" Mauk (born January 4, 1985 in Kenton, Ohio) is an American football quarterback who was most recently the quarterback for the Cincinnati Commandos of the Continental Indoor Football League (CIFL), and with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He completed his college football career in 2007 for the Cincinnati Bearcats. He attended high school at Kenton High School where he set national passing records as a senior. He then went on to play at Wake Forest, and then later transferred to Cincinnati at the conclusion of the 2006 season.

Mauk led the Kenton Wildcats to consecutive Ohio Division IV championships in 2001 and 2002. At the completion of his senior season, Ben gained national recognition by winning the 2002 Ohio Mr. Football Award, 2002 Gatorade Ohio Football Player of the Year and the 2002 Art Tuion Award Winner.

During his high school career, Mauk became one of the most celebrated quarterbacks in Ohio High School Athletics Association history.