Imac 2011 wakes itself up

I have this problem where I would put my imac to sleep and it will wake itself up. Before I use to hear it waking up without ighting up the screen and after a few seconds will go back to sleep Now it will continue to be awake although my external drives seem to be asleep still. I already unchecked the 'wake for network access' and put the computer to sleep once it reach 20 mins. I even turned off Time Machine Editor and it still wakes itself. So what else is causiing it?

Open Console - it is in your Utilities folder.
Under System Log Queries in the left column, select All Messages
In the search field at the upper right, type wake reason
Copy and paste the text that appears. If there are hundreds of log entries, don't paste all of them, just select the dozen or so last entries.

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                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family(500.15)[4282DF5A-86B9-3213-B9B1-675FAD842A94]@0xf fffff7f8ea8e000
                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(3.0)[28575328-A798-34B3-BD84-D708138EBD17]@0 xffffff7f8e4bb000
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             com.apple.driver.AirPort.Atheros40(600.70.23)[2E6077DF-D532-357F-8107-F23BC2C10 F2F]@0xffffff7f8eafa000->0xffffff7f8ec42fff
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                dependency: com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family(500.15)[4282DF5A-86B9-3213-B9B1-675FAD842A94]@0xf fffff7f8ea8e000
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    com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient          196.0.0
    com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall          4.0.39
    com.apple.security.quarantine          2
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    0xffffff838aeb3a30 : 0xffffff800dc1d626
    0xffffff838aeb3aa0 : 0xffffff800dc9db1b
    0xffffff838aeb3b20 : 0xffffff800dca2330
    0xffffff838aeb3be0 : 0xffffff800dca2b65
    0xffffff838aeb3c30 : 0xffffff800dc66a1c
    0xffffff838aeb3d20 : 0xffffff800dc6a8f0
    0xffffff838aeb3d50 : 0xffffff800dc653ef
    0xffffff838aeb3d80 : 0xffffff800e002333
    0xffffff838aeb3da0 : 0xffffff800e06396c
    0xffffff838aeb3de0 : 0xffffff800dc93983
    0xffffff838aeb3e10 : 0xffffff800dc20aed
    0xffffff838aeb3e40 : 0xffffff800dc10448
    0xffffff838aeb3e90 : 0xffffff800dc1961b
    0xffffff838aeb3f00 : 0xffffff800dca59be
    0xffffff838aeb3fb0 : 0xffffff800dcceafe
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