Results are shown for several small molecules in Table VI, for VtC transitions of second-row elements where reliable experimental data are available. No empirical shift has been employed, nevertheless results obtained using the B3LYP functional are quite good, with a MAE of 0.8 eV. This can be compared to results for the same data set that have been obtained using many-body methods including EOM-CCSD (MAE = 0.5 eV) and ADC (MAEs ranging from 0.3-1.5 eV depending on the particular variant of ADC). It is possible that the STM results might be improved further by empirical shifting, and we hope to provide a more complete evaluation of (G)STM methods for core-excited states in due course.